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On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:21 PM, ivailo ilionov |
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<ivailo.ilionov@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Any implementation is fine really. |
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>> There have been many stats projects in the past that have failed due to |
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>> various reasons. A simple question is: How are you planning on making |
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>> your idea/proposal not fail? ;) |
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> As Dylan Hunt would say: "By making it right : )" ( with the smile ). |
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> The simple answer : |
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> The server: |
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> - will wait for clients to send information about the system |
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How will the clients talk to the server? |
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- Rest? |
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- XMLRPC? |
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- Something else? |
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> - will tell about the statistics they want |
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do you plan to offer a webUI or just an API? |
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> - will print an overall statistic if nothing specified |
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> - register clients, the registration will be optionally set with an |
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> expire value, or by default |
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> one month ( the expiration timer is reseted on every update by the client ) |
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How will you authenticate clients? How will you protect sensitive data? |
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What if one client has hundreds of machines, will your client auth be |
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'per host'? |
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What about third party clients? |
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What about clients that upload fake data? |
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- will your client sign the data with a privkey so fake data is |
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harder to upload? |
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- if so, how often will you rotate keys? |
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> The client ( a daemon on the client machine ): |
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rationale for daemon vs cronjob? |
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> - periodically will check different kind of interesting things |
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> - in cases of device checks, the daemon will check on start up, as |
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> it is added as init |
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> script to default level |
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> - arch - again on start up |
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> - in case of installed packages, the daemon will check them |
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> periodically. default will be |
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> one week or user defined ( no more than the defined expiration |
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> date by the server ) |
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> - will choose, from a list of activated modules, what information to send |
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I'd like to see some examples of modules and then some plan on what |
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order you think you will implement them. |
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A daemon with 2 working modules is better than a daemon with 10 half |
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finished ones. We can always get people to add more later. How will |
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the modules work? |
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> Optional: |
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> - GUI interface to configure the daemon on the client machine using GTK. |
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Lets call this a stretch goal eh ;) |
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> I don't have anything specific in mind for the server configuration, |
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> but it could be via a |
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> simple text file. |
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> I have been exposed to the MVC idea, so of course I intend to separate |
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> logic, presentation, |
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> and storage of information. |
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> Some information about me: |
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> I'm from Bulgaria ( GMT+2 ). First year in Informatics at an |
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> university. I'm using gentoo |
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> since 2007 and of course I intend to continue using it : ) |
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> I have experience with Perl and C/C++ ( I still haven't read the |
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> second vol of Thinking in C++, but I feel ready for it ). |
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> No experience with open source/ and free/ projects. |
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> Ah, my name is ( by id card ) Ivaylo Ilionov and I'm 21 years old : ) |
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> Any questions or suggestions are welcomed. If I annoyed you with |
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> something - sorry. |
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