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Minutes of meeting 19/03/2001 @ 2pm |
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Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room |
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Present: ab11, ajm4, pjm2, tdb1 |
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The first part of the meeting was a usual "catch up" |
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session. Each of the group members reported back on what |
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they'd been doing, and where things stood. |
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AJ was proud to announce that Conient was now complete, or |
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at least as complete as it was going to be for the project. |
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There were of course many more features that could have been |
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added, but time was restrictive. This has been the case with |
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most things. The GUI had been reworking to provide a sorted |
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list of hosts, which was much easier to navigate. A few bugs |
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had been ironed out with the layout, and a general tidy up |
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had been done. |
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Paul said the web reports were well in progress, maybe even |
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finished. The pages for the "latest data" and "alerts" had |
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been done, and linked together with the historical side of |
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things. A summary alerts page had also been generated. |
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The other group members were impressed by the webpages |
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generally, but felt that a few more smaller things were |
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required. Firstly a "one screen" summary of selected hosts, |
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maybe for display on a "public monitor" near reception |
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desks. Concern was also raised that the whole lot should be |
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even more tightly integrated... so it appeared as one |
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system, rather than a collection of three subpages. |
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Paul also added at this stage that winhost had been |
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finished. It now reported uptime correctly, and the icon had |
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been made blue (instead of pink). The few minor bugs that |
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existed had been ironed out, and an installer had been made. |
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AJ reported that it now worked on his system, and didn't |
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give an OCX error as before. |
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Tim was pleased to inform the group that the server seemed |
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to be fixed. He and AJ had spent a long night in the |
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computer room debugging and fixing parts of the server. In |
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the end it seems it was a deadlock (or livelock?) issue in |
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the Queue. The system had been running for nearly 48 hours |
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without any hassle and was looking good. |
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Tim also added that the server was essentially complete, |
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except for the LocalClient which still needed a few minor |
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points ironing out with alerting. |
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It was also noted that statgrab and ihost were as good as |
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finished, although a few minor issues still needed solving. |
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These would be solved ASAP. |
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Ash informed the group that he had finally solved the 1024kb |
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UDP packet size problem on the C++ host. It required |
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changing the socket library, which was not satisifactory, |
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but it at least worked. He also added that documentation on |
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both the C++ host and the Java host had begun. |
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The group noted the urgency to complete documentation. With |
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little over a week to go, and a lot to write, things were |
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getting very close. As coding had virtually completed now, |
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documentation could be done throughout the week. As luck |
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would have it, everyone had a databases assignment due in |
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midweek, which may take up valuable time. |
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There will be a meeting with Ian at 12pm on Thursday, and |
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the usual meeting on Monday at 2.15pm. |