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minutes-20010212.txt
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).
