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Minutes of meeting 12/02/2001 @ 3pm
Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room

Present: ab11, ajm4, pjm2, tdb1

The meeting began with a review of the last two weeks, as 
all members were not present at the last meeting. However, a 
lot of these points were covered during the last minutes. AJ 
told the group about the new "service checks" that were 
implemented in the Filter system. These allowed checking of 
typical system services (WWW, FTP, SMTP, etc), the results 
being wrapped in XML in a heartbeat packet.

Tim had implemented the Queue monitoring system, and gave 
the group brief details of the packet layout. Ash requested 
some help with compiling a C++ socket library, which would 
hopefully allow the network parts to be hooked into the 
host. He also said development of the windows parts were 
progressing, but that the network stuff was also needed 
there.

Discussions were started about how the data from the service 
checks would be displayed. Tim and Paul discussed if any 
historical data could be generated, and Ash suggested a CGI 
script. Tim pointed out that there wasn't even any basic 
functionality in a local client yet, and this needed to be 
done first. He suggested the local client just pump data out 
to some text form (be it, csv, xml, html, etc) in the first 
instance, and then expand this afterwards.

Over the next week, or so, the group agreed that things 
should be pulled together. AJ said he would bring the 
client, conient, to a complete point, and put some of the 
"funky" features on hold. Paul said he would finish of the 
database reports, and look at archiving/cleaning the 
database. Tim said he would look at the overall design of 
the local client, and implement it with a very modular 
design. Ash said, with the socket library compiled, that he 
would get the host working, and maybe look at CGI's for 
displaying service checks.

AJ brought up the issue of configuration grouping. It was 
shown before that it was needed, but it could be done 
without. Now that service checks have been implemented it 
was becoming even more apparent that it was required. AJ 
said he would look into doing this.

The group realised that not only was time running short, but 
everyone had a lot of other commitments too. The group 
agreed that completion of coding over the next week or two 
would be a good idea, as there are many other deliverables 
to be completed.

There will be a meeting with Ian at 2.15 on Wednesday, and a 
usual meeting on Monday at 2.15 (we have DEFINATELY booked 
it this time).
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1	Minutes of meeting 12/02/2001 @ 3pm
2	Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room
3
4	Present: ab11, ajm4, pjm2, tdb1
5
6	The meeting began with a review of the last two weeks, as
7	all members were not present at the last meeting. However, a
8	lot of these points were covered during the last minutes. AJ
9	told the group about the new "service checks" that were
10	implemented in the Filter system. These allowed checking of
11	typical system services (WWW, FTP, SMTP, etc), the results
12	being wrapped in XML in a heartbeat packet.
13
14	Tim had implemented the Queue monitoring system, and gave
15	the group brief details of the packet layout. Ash requested
16	some help with compiling a C++ socket library, which would
17	hopefully allow the network parts to be hooked into the
18	host. He also said development of the windows parts were
19	progressing, but that the network stuff was also needed
20	there.
21
22	Discussions were started about how the data from the service
23	checks would be displayed. Tim and Paul discussed if any
24	historical data could be generated, and Ash suggested a CGI
25	script. Tim pointed out that there wasn't even any basic
26	functionality in a local client yet, and this needed to be
27	done first. He suggested the local client just pump data out
28	to some text form (be it, csv, xml, html, etc) in the first
29	instance, and then expand this afterwards.
30
31	Over the next week, or so, the group agreed that things
32	should be pulled together. AJ said he would bring the
33	client, conient, to a complete point, and put some of the
34	"funky" features on hold. Paul said he would finish of the
35	database reports, and look at archiving/cleaning the
36	database. Tim said he would look at the overall design of
37	the local client, and implement it with a very modular
38	design. Ash said, with the socket library compiled, that he
39	would get the host working, and maybe look at CGI's for
40	displaying service checks.
41
42	AJ brought up the issue of configuration grouping. It was
43	shown before that it was needed, but it could be done
44	without. Now that service checks have been implemented it
45	was becoming even more apparent that it was required. AJ
46	said he would look into doing this.
47
48	The group realised that not only was time running short, but
49	everyone had a lot of other commitments too. The group
50	agreed that completion of coding over the next week or two
51	would be a good idea, as there are many other deliverables
52	to be completed.
53
54	There will be a meeting with Ian at 2.15 on Wednesday, and a
55	usual meeting on Monday at 2.15 (we have DEFINATELY booked
56	it this time).