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minutes-20010319.txt
Minutes of meeting 19/03/2001 @ 2pm Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room Present: ab11, ajm4, pjm2, tdb1 The first part of the meeting was a usual "catch up" session. Each of the group members reported back on what they'd been doing, and where things stood. AJ was proud to announce that Conient was now complete, or at least as complete as it was going to be for the project. There were of course many more features that could have been added, but time was restrictive. This has been the case with most things. The GUI had been reworking to provide a sorted list of hosts, which was much easier to navigate. A few bugs had been ironed out with the layout, and a general tidy up had been done. Paul said the web reports were well in progress, maybe even finished. The pages for the "latest data" and "alerts" had been done, and linked together with the historical side of things. A summary alerts page had also been generated. The other group members were impressed by the webpages generally, but felt that a few more smaller things were required. Firstly a "one screen" summary of selected hosts, maybe for display on a "public monitor" near reception desks. Concern was also raised that the whole lot should be even more tightly integrated... so it appeared as one system, rather than a collection of three subpages. Paul also added at this stage that winhost had been finished. It now reported uptime correctly, and the icon had been made blue (instead of pink). The few minor bugs that existed had been ironed out, and an installer had been made. AJ reported that it now worked on his system, and didn't give an OCX error as before. Tim was pleased to inform the group that the server seemed to be fixed. He and AJ had spent a long night in the computer room debugging and fixing parts of the server. In the end it seems it was a deadlock (or livelock?) issue in the Queue. The system had been running for nearly 48 hours without any hassle and was looking good. Tim also added that the server was essentially complete, except for the LocalClient which still needed a few minor points ironing out with alerting. It was also noted that statgrab and ihost were as good as finished, although a few minor issues still needed solving. These would be solved ASAP. Ash informed the group that he had finally solved the 1024kb UDP packet size problem on the C++ host. It required changing the socket library, which was not satisifactory, but it at least worked. He also added that documentation on both the C++ host and the Java host had begun. The group noted the urgency to complete documentation. With little over a week to go, and a lot to write, things were getting very close. As coding had virtually completed now, documentation could be done throughout the week. As luck would have it, everyone had a databases assignment due in midweek, which may take up valuable time. There will be a meeting with Ian at 12pm on Thursday, and the usual meeting on Monday at 2.15pm.
