ANNOUNCE: moodss-17.15 and moomps-2.17

From: Jean-Luc Fontaine (jfontain_at_free.fr)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:04:26 +0100

### CHANGES ###

--- moodss 17.15 and moomps 2.17 ---

- in moodss GUI:
   - when saving configuration in database history mode, the database
     instances viewer position, size and icon status are now also saved
     and restored
   - in preferences and configuration dialog boxes:
     - added viewers cells section, in which the user can choose
       whether module names or identifiers are displayed in cell labels
       in viewers (which is useful for example when there is only one
       module loaded)
     - added viewers tables section, in order to be able to set the
       maximum number of rows of values table in database history mode
     - in viewers graphs page:
       - add X axis labels angle setting between 45 and 90 degrees
       - added apply button in order to dynamically apply options to
         existing graph viewers
       - in database history mode, number of samples entry is grayed
     - application size page would crash due to a bug introduced in the
       previous release (a typo in the source code really)
   - in statistics tables viewers, data cells labels were incorrect
     (bug introduced in previous release)
   - when loading general help window, display watch cursor in top
     contents pane till bottom pane is fully rendered
   - added help message in empty database instances viewer suggesting
     to load module instance(s) from database or perform a drop
   - in some cases, when reloading a database history dashboard with
     viewers, an error could occur, caused by the database being
     disconnected and the viewers trying to update just before being
     deleted
   - pie viewers would crash when a threshold was set on one of their
     data cells
- in pci module, removed detailed information column (too verbose and
   technical)
- updated myerrorlog module for MySQL 4.0.17 support

### README ###

This is moodss (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Spread***) version
17.15 and moomps (Modular Object Oriented Multi-Purpose Service)
version 2.17.

For Unix Review, moodss is "a must-have application for today's
network and systems administrators", and for Eric S. Raymond, in "The
Art of UNIX Programming" book: "the code is polished, mature, and
considered an exemplar in the Tcl community."
Linux Magazine calls it a "lifesaver".
Tucows gives it 5 stars (cows or penguins :-).

Moodss is a modular application. It displays data described and
updated in one or more modules, which can be specified in the command
line or dynamically loaded or unloaded while the application is
running. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers
(graph, bar, 3D pie charts, ...), summary tables (with current,
average, minimum and maximum values) and free text viewers can be
created from any number of table cells, originating from any of the
displayed viewers. The display area can be extended by adding pages
with notebook tabs. Thresholds can be set on any number of cells.

Moomps (shipped with moodss) is a monitoring daemon which works using
configuration files created by moodss. Thresholds, when crossed,
create messages in the system log, and eventually trigger the sending
of email alert messages and the execution of user defined scripts.

For both moodss and moomps, it is also possible to use a database as a
storage mean, so that data history is for example available for
presentations and graphs, via commonly available spread*** software.

Specific modules can easily be developed in the Tcl, Perl and Python
scripting languages or in C.

A thorough and intuitive drag'n'drop scheme is used for most viewer
editing tasks: creation, modification, type mutation, destruction,
... and thresholds creation. Table rows can be sorted in increasing or
decreasing order by clicking on column titles. The current
configuration (modules, tables and viewers geometry, ...) can be saved
in a file at any time, and later loaded at the user's convenience,
thus achieving a dashboard functionality.

The module code is the link between the moodss core and the data to be
displayed. All the specific code is kept in the module package. Since
module data access is entirely customizable (through C code, Tcl,
Perl, Python, HTTP, ...) and since several modules can be loaded at
once, applications for moodss become limitless.

Many modules are provided, such as a comprehensive set for Linux
system monitoring, MySQL, network, SNMP, Python and Perl modules
examples. For example, thoroughly monitor a dynamic web server on a
single dashboard with graphs, using the Apache, MySQL, ODBC, cpustats,
memstats, ... modules. If you have replicated servers, dynamically add
them to your view, even load the snmp module on the fly and let your
imagination take over...

Thorough help is provided through menus, widget tips, a message area,
a module help window and a global help window with a complete HTML
documentation.

Moodss is multi-lingual thanks to Tcl internationalization
capabilities. So far only English and partially French are
supported. Help with other languages will be very warmly welcomed.

Development of moodss is continuing and as more features are added in
future versions, backward module code compatibility will be maintained.

###

you may find it now at my homepage:

http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-17.15.tar.bz2
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-17.15.zip
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-17.15.i386.tar.bz2
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-17.15-1.i386.rpm
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-17.15-1.spec
http://jfontain.free.fr/moomps-2.17.tar.bz2
http://jfontain.free.fr/moomps-2.17-1.noarch.rpm
http://jfontain.free.fr/moomps-2.17-1.spec 

-- 
Jean-Luc Fontaine  mailto:jfontain@free.fr  http://jfontain.free.fr/
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