Well I have a pretty flexible numeric pager setup if anyone is
interested I can contrib to the cause.
Vikas, You have done a hell of a Job!
TIA
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Vikas Aggarwal was heard blurting out:
> Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >
> > I think what's happened is that development is pretty much at a
> > standstill. I'm not saying "Dammit Vikas! Get this thing going again!",
> > just observing...
> >
> > Anyhow, in our case we're running a few versions behind current, and the
> > local mods are so heavy I couldn't even imagine upgrading. In talking to
> > other people that use Nocol, I've found the same thing. The changes are
> > broad and somewhat hackish, but they work, and have the side-effect of
> > locking you into what you've got.
>
> It has been hard to dedicate time to development of nocol, and
> contributions have been pretty few. I can work on enhancing this package
> but I do need some dedicated time and support from others in the list
> also.
>
> The current release has a lot of contributions from users in the field,
> and that has helped NOCOL grow to its current stage (web interface, perl
> interface, paging, etc.). If there is support from others on this list,
> then I can coordinate enhancing the package and adding new features.
>
> Top on the list of things to do are:
>
> 1. fix outstanding bugs in current beta release (minor effort)
> 2. update PERL code to use OO perl5 (need good perl developer)
> 3. add hook to MRTG to detect thresholds from data being collected
> by MRTG (minor effort)
> 4. Replace snmp with UCD SNMP code (C development effort)
> 5. Consolidate/rewrite good parallel tasking SNMP perl module (need SNMP
> and perl developer)
> 6. Add 'dbase' support (design, need database designer)
> 7. Reports (historical trends, perhaps plot in MRTG)
> 8. Documentation in HTML
> 9. Use 'gnu' config (already done, need testing?)
>
> I have found very few 'bugs' with the C monitors, most of the bugs are
> with 'hostmon' which needs to be rewritten as part of #2. I realize that
> this hostmon data can be collected as part of UCD snmp also, but a lot of
> folks seem to end up using hostmon.
>
> If there are folks willing to take up some of the above responsibilities
> and dedicate about a month's effort, I think we can roll out a new release
> with most of the above features by November end.
>
> If you think you can take up a piece of this list above, then please send
> email and I can _actively_ start working with you all on the next
> release... but I _need_ your support to do this.
>
> -vikas
> vikas@navya.com
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