RE: Development directions

UNIX agent upgrades from 0.1.15 should go without problems. I have asked
Alex to create special upgrade package for 0.1.14 to 0.1.15 upgrade for
UNIX. I can also try to create them by myself. I hope thet we will test
UNIX upgrades in a next few days. How is going with Windows agents
upgrade? I have upgraded all my Windows agents from 0.1.14 to 0.1.15
from console without any problems.

Service checks is a very serious issue - unfortunatelly I didn't hear
about any problems (or I just cannot remember? :) ) before this mail. I
think we should go case by case with service checks until we get working
solution. I'm ready to actively participate in this process, just let me
know what's going wrong.

Regards,
Victor

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Kopman [mailto:Igor.Kopman_at_ctco.lv]
Sent: 02 March 2005 13:09
To: NetXMS Developers talks
Subject: Re: [netxms-dev] Development directions

What about to start with just making Unix agent upgrades as well as to
make service checks to really make checks? :)

We still have .14 on all unix servers, as upgrade is not working for
unix'es yet.

We also don't have reliable service checks. Half of service checks shows
some magical stuff instead of real data: dozens of false alarms, some
servers are "always down" while actually up, and so on. Currently we had
to disable all service checks at all, as noone trusts into this checks
anyway.

So I think it's nice to have all this pretty GUI stuff, but without
reliable monitoring agents it's just useless... Without proper upgrade
procedure - installing new versions with new stuff - this is amount of
work that makes all this stuff useless too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Kirhenshtein [mailto:victor_at_opticom.lv]
Sent: 2 2005 . 12:56
To: NetXMS Developers talks
Subject: [netxms-dev] Development directions

Hi all!

Is there any ideas on what direction(s) we should focus for the next
versions? I see the following to choose from:

- GUI improvement. This can include more powerful graphs, simplified
policy editing, sorting in all views.
- Event correlation.
- Agent improvement (more parameters, maybe some optimization).
- Log analyzer subagent.
- Perl subagent (to make possible write parameter handlers in perl
without executing perl interpreter each time).
- Centralized agent management - agent configuration editing from
console, remote agent restart.
- Data collection templates.
- SNMP support improvement (adding support for v3, extensive testing,
adding MIB parser to libnxsnmp).
- Add support for plugins to GUI.
- Network maps.

I'm waiting for your comments.

Regards,
Victor
Received on Wed Mar 02 2005 - 16:00:33 EET