[admin] New project request, "noctool".

[Gary King]

Hi Ingvar,

This sounds very interesting. You should be all set.

On Mar 13, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Ingvar wrote:

> Aloha, as some of you may remember from Planet Lisp posts passim, I  
> have been
> doodling on a network/system management tool, currently named  
> "noctool". I've
> had the odd offer of coding help on it and thought that common- 
> lisp.met would
> be a suitable platform for central version-control and the like.
>
> The project, in short, is to build a distributed network and sysem  
> monitoring
> and data-collecting platform. It currently supports gathering ping  
> RTT data
> (for delay and aliveness monitoring), disk usage, web server checks  
> and a
> framework for doing TCP-based application cheks (the web server  
> check is but a
> special case of the TCP-based checking). In time, I hope to add  
> assorted
> SNMP-based monitoring.
>
> The distribution model is intended both as a means for the viewer  
> portion to
> conect to the data gatherers and to make it easy (or at least  
> easier) to use
> multiple data-gathering stations (with the drawback that any given  
> element and
> the things monitored on that element must be monitored from one of the
> existing data gatherers).
>
> Noctool can also graph all the things it monitors, an example graph  
> can be
> seen at http://src.hexapodia.net/noctool/disktest.gif
>
> MC, I suspect that if you just reply to this, including an ASCII- 
> armoured PGP
> key, they'll set you up with an account and add you to the project  
> (if,
> indeed, it is approved).
>
> I already have a cl.net account, "imattsson".
>
> //Ingvar
>
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