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Revision: 1.22
Committed: Fri May 25 22:53:48 2001 UTC (23 years, 7 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.21: +21 -27 lines
Log Message:
Moved the older TODO items to an older list. This leaves a new list of things
we plan to do in the future, which probably need not be quite as detailed.

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# User Rev Content
1 tdb 1.1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
2    
3     <!--
4     todo.shtml
5     Created by tdb1 07/03/2001
6 tdb 1.22 Last edited 25/05/2001
7 tdb 1.1 -->
8    
9     <html>
10    
11     <head>
12     <title>i-scream TODO list</title>
13     </head>
14    
15     <body bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ff" alink="#3333cc" vlink="#3333cc" text="#000066">
16    
17     <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
18     <tr>
19     <td valign="top">
20     <!--#include virtual="left.inc" -->
21     </td>
22     <td valign="top">
23     <!--#include virtual="title.inc" -->
24    
25 tdb 1.22 <h2><font face="Arial">(old) i-scream central monitoring system TODO list</font></h2>
26 tdb 1.1
27 tdb 1.22 <font face="Arial" size="2">This is the TODO list to be achieved by the end of the &quot;project&quot; period.
28     A
29     <a href="/todo.shtml">newer TODO list</a> now exists to cover the future things
30     we plan to do with the development of the i-scream central monitoring system.</font><h3>
31     <font face="Arial">Server</font></h3>
32     <pre>LocalClient Monitors: Users.
33 tdb 1.1
34     Completed:
35     ----------
36 tdb 1.20 22/03/2001 - FIX the major memory leak and deadlock issues.
37     LocalClient Monitors: Load, Processes, Queues.
38 tdb 1.15 18/03/2001 - LocalClient Monitors: Disks/Memory need MB threshold
39 tdb 1.13 15/03/2001 - Alert dumping needs to be organised better.
40 tdb 1.17 Running on Windows InetAddress.getHostName() doesn't return the FQDN.
41 tdb 1.8 13/03/2001 - Thread naming, at least at a "what class it is" level.
42 tdb 1.17 Utilise the ConfigurationProxy throughout the server.
43     Sort out GC & Configuration objects (and CorbaHandlers).
44 tdb 1.8 09/03/2001 - WebFeeder needs to dump Alerts to disk.
45 tdb 1.5 08/03/2001 - WebFeeder needs to dump XML to disk
46 tdb 1.8 LocalClient Monitors: Disks, Service Checks
47 tdb 1.3 07/03/2001 - Service Checks: FTP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, Telnet
48 tdb 1.1 01/03/2001 - Make it easy to change flags to the java compiler.
49     Configuration groups need implementing.
50     28/02/2001 - Queue identification ? Use a hash of the Queue ?
51     Fix the Queue "unlimited" size problem.
52     27/02/2001 - (not needed) ClientInterface/DBInterface need to "pull" data ?
53     Builds on the website ?
54     Change build scripts to make iscream-server.java/tar.gz/zip
55     25/02/2001 - Move checking of logging verbosity to the servant.
56     23/02/2001 - print verbosity level with logging messages
57     functionality added to the LoggerServant
58     23/02/2001 - Startup of components - eg. running DBInterface on another machine.
59     Now catches any problems relating to not finding a component if
60     a component has a dependancy. The component manager will then
61     retry it after a given timeout.
62     12/02/2001 - Logging of Queue.status() somehow.
63     06/02/2001 - Make use of the PrintWriter "autoflush" feature :)
64     28/01/2001 - Add dependency checking for the DOCOPY Makefile target.
65     Client Interface needs more functionality.
66     SQL Driver doesn't work in Windows.
67     18/01/2001 - Heartbeats are still dropped.
68     CVS directories get added to build tar/zip file.
69     Problem on FreeBSD with zip file adding more files than it should.
70     Remove Component from util package -> ComponentManager.
71     Remove ReferenceManager from util package -> ComponentManager.
72     Add status methods to the Queue that return just values.
73     Clean up the util package, it shouldn't do logging etc.
74     -- done with the exception of ReferenceManager.
75     16/01/2001 - Build a util package JAR file seperately.
76     14/01/2001 - Javadoc pages on website ?
77     -- done for the server at least.
78     12/01/2001 - Investigate the use of a Queue in the Filter, to replace the
79     current FilterThread setup.
80     07/01/2001 - Makefile needs to copy non-java files to JAR (eg. images).
81     02/01/2001 - Add making of Javadoc pages to make scripts.
82     Queuing system in the root filter.
83     </pre>
84    
85 tdb 1.22 <h3><font face="Arial">Conient</font></h3>
86     <pre>Completed:
87 tdb 1.1 ----------
88 ajm 1.16 18/03/2001 - Switch to using the StringUtil class for the firewall command stuff.
89     Fix bug where it can take up to two packets to display
90     correct information. This is most visible in service
91     checks, but can also be seen on disk, memory and anything
92     else that uses two data items from the packet for one
93     component.
94 tdb 1.1 01/03/2001 - re-work host display and choosing mechanism (ie, make us 1.1 protocol)
95     26/02/2001 - Rework system displaying of components for Swing Event Handling
96     Allow config to be written back to a local file
97     Allow local file config to be changed via the GUI
98     05/02/2001 - allow disk components to alter their units
99     have some icons and the i-scream logo on display
100     show errors in windows rather than on the console
101     Fix error in packet stopping update of ALL hosts
102     04/02/2001 - Write LOADS more data components
103     03/02/2001 - Allow config to be obtained from the server
104     30/01/2001 - Add option to handle firewalls
105     29/01/2001 - Allow config to be obtained from a local file
106     Fix problem with memory display showing negative values at start
107     Ensure all Swing updates use the Swing Event Handling thread (partial - only data components)
108     28/01/2001 - Tidy up network comms and link handling
109     </pre>
110    
111 tdb 1.22 <h3><font face="Arial">statgrab</font></h3>
112     <pre>Completed:
113 tdb 1.14 ----------
114 tdb 1.19 20/03/2001 - Linux - CPU %'s not always right, 2 repititions ?
115 tdb 1.18 19/03/2001 - Odd behaviour with more than 1000 processes, on Solaris at least
116     FreeBSD - grabbing memory total
117 tdb 1.14 11/03/2001 - Solaris - If free memory changes to < 10Mb (?) it changes to K rather than M (thus not matched)
118 tdb 1.1 </pre>
119    
120 tdb 1.22 <h3><font face="Arial">C++ Host</font></h3>
121     <pre>UDP Packet size to 8Kb
122 tdb 1.1 Porting to Linux/FreeBSD (Windows?)
123     </pre>
124    
125 tdb 1.22 <h3><font face="Arial">Winhost</font></h3>
126     <pre>Completed:
127 tdb 1.17 ----------
128     19/03/2001 - Still needs to send the true uptime.
129     Processor ID should be packet.os.platform
130     Minor version joined with packet.os.version
131     Logo ? Pink icon ?
132     Solve OCX problem
133 tdb 1.1 </pre>
134    
135 tdb 1.22 <h3><font face="Arial">ihost</font></h3>
136     <pre>Completed:
137 tdb 1.14 ----------
138     12/03/2001 - Produce a very quick "check script" which can be run by cron.
139 tdb 1.1 </pre>
140    
141 tdb 1.22 <h3><font face="Arial">Web Reports</font></h3>
142     <pre>Completed:
143 tdb 1.19 ----------
144 pjm2 1.21 22/03/2001 - Alert/System Summary Page (incl. helpdesk style)
145 tdb 1.19 15/03/2001 - Individual Host Alert Summary Page(s)
146     14/03/2001 - Individual Host Lastest Data Page(s) (including service checks)
147 tdb 1.1 </pre>
148    
149     <!--#include virtual="bottom.inc" -->
150     </td>
151     </tr>
152     </table>
153    
154     </body>
155 tdb 1.22 </html>