Hi Hank,
These two button only show up if you have a (demo-) capture agent
installed on you machine. If you deactivate the capture agent and
confidence monitoring modules these will not show up (with
http://my-server/system/console i.e.). They are intended to show up on
the CA welcome page. The split that you are talking about is still there.
We can discuss if we remove these modules from the default build, so
that they don't show up in the all-in-one installation at all.
But the functions we are talking about are constantly used by us in
production and in the support for user university I frequently see that
these hidden features would be very helpful for many adopters.
As this is more a development releated question I would have thought
that you'd better posted this on the developers list?!
Rüdiger
Am 10.11.2011 18:54, schrieb Hank Magnuski:
I noticed, on the Welcome page of the most recent Matterhorn 1.3.x,
two new buttons titled "Capture Tools" and "Confidence Monitoring".
As far as I can tell these two buttons are designed to reference pages
on a Capture Agent and not on the server, and currently reference the
demo capture agent, which won't be installed on a lot of servers.
This is potentially pretty confusing to new viewers of the Welcome
page because it mixes server functionality with capture agent
functionality and it won't be obvious at first as to where these
services are running. If the idea is that the server can be used to
manually start/stop the CA this might also violate one of the core
design ideas of a Capture Agent in that the CA should reach out to the
server, but the server never has to communicate with the CA.
One of the things I really liked about the Matterhorn architecture was
the pretty clean split between the capture agent and the server, and
the defined REST API containing the interface and features that needed
to be provisioned. I think this new Welcome page muddies the water a
lot and suggest these new buttons be removed or relocated somewhere else.
In fact, to go even further, with two new commercial encoders
available for Matterhorn (Epiphan and NCast) and more in the pipeline,
maybe it's time to split off the CA reference design into its own
project to keep the CA at arms length from the server and to keep that
nice split clean and very clearly defined.
Hank
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