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Minutes of Meeting, 30/10/2000 @ 10:20 |
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Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room |
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Present: ab11, ajm4, tdb1 |
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Absent: pjm2 |
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Absentee(s): Unable to attend due to lack of commitment. |
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The intention of the meeting was to complete the Time Plan |
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Allocation, which is a required deliverable. Although almost |
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finished tasks had not been allocated to group members. |
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Tim noted that a soft reboot of Compsoc1 may be required to |
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enable the meeting to proceed as planned. Compsoc1 quietens |
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down. |
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A discussion about the sizes of compiled C++ programs on |
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Solaris concluded that the actual size of the binary |
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executable is down to the setup of the compiler on the |
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target machine. It is decided that we should not worry |
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about this hurdle until further into the projects |
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development. |
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The technologies which the project would utilise were |
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discussed and the following points raised. |
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- During the first few phases of the development our own |
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protocol should be used for communication between Hosts |
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and server, and server and clients. If a defined |
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technology, such as SNMP, is decided upon then this can |
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easily be substituted in due to the modular design of the |
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applications. |
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- The protocol should be based on XML or a system not too |
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dis-similar. The reason for this is it all text based and |
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thus easier to process. |
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- The use of UDP and TCP/IP as communication layers between |
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hosts and filer/collectors. To be discussed further with |
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possible input from JC and PSSC. |
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The use of heart beats was also discussed. It was decided |
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that further thought would have to be given to the |
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implication of these before they would be finalised. |
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Meeting concluded @ 12:00pm |
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Meeting re-conviened @ 3:00pm |
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Discussion on the implemention of the plugin technology |
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concluded that data should flow through plugins in a |
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sequential manner and should remain as plain text at all |
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times. It was also discussed that plugins should have a |
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'order' coded into them, to allow the data to flow in a |
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suitable manner for the plugins. |
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Meeting concluded @ 4:30pm |
