### CHANGES ### --- version 16.2 ---
- pages tabs now reflect, by their background color, the crossed thresholds of highest importance in a page - pages tabs now feature a widget tip (balloon) containing up to 3 summaries of the crossed thresholds in a page - implemented colors sequencing (frequency: 1 Hertz) in pages tabs when there are several crossed thresholds of the same importance but of different colors in a page - messenger header (message label at the bottom left of the application window) now also serves as a global active thresholds viewer and implements the new pages tab features (crossed thresholds colors and summaries) but for all the thresholds in the loaded modules, independently of the presence of pages - allowed tables or viewers transfer between pages by move into a page tab, using the internal window manager handles - allowed viewer deletion by move into the eraser, using the internal window manager handles - hopefully handled all cases causing an update of pages tabs colors and widget tips (unloading modules, deleting viewers, moving viewers and tables between pages, updating thresholds, creating first page) - pages cannot be deleted when running in read-only mode - in preferences dialog box, validation would fail when there were no pages displayed - deleting a page between others would make all tables and viewers invisible in the following pages - current values table viewers now support non numerical data - improved anti-vibration code in automatic scroll widgets (please let me know if you see scrollbars in viewers, tables, canvas, help, ... hang the user interface by constantly appearing and disappearing, as in an infinite loop) - when loading from a save file, viewers using summary table viewer cells could show void values, due to a conceptual hole in the summary table restoration code (if you have such dashboards, repair by making sure all viewers show valid values, correct if necessary, then save) - when loading from a save file, cells with thresholds crossed immediately would not be colored on the initial refresh cycle - in thresholds dialog box, update original cell label so that it is correct in all cases, such as when loading from a save file - in global help window, scrolling using the keyboard is immediately enabled - in moomps daemon, removed debug trace - use helvetica font again in HTML widget, used in help, as italics are no longer displayed with an ugly fixed font on XFree 4.2 - use a common background color for all viewers so that free text viewer color is not different from the other viewers on Windows - successfully tested on Redhat 7.3 - in rpm, shared libraries successfully compiled and tested with gcc 3.1 ### README ### This is moodss (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) version 16.2. Moodss won in the Best System Admin Technology category (Tcl Tips and Tricks, Valuable Real World Programming Examples) at the O'Reilly Tcl/Tk 1999 Conference. 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. 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. 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... Along with a core trace module, arp, cpustats, diskstats, interrupts, kernmods, memstats, minimal, mounts, netdev, pci, ps, random, route, sensors, system modules for Linux, MySQL (myerrorlog, myhealth, myprocs, myquery, myreplication, mystatus, myvars), odbcquery, ping, snmp, snmptrap for UNIX, apache and apachex, Minimal and Random Perl modules, minipy and randpy Python modules are included. Running "wish moodss ps cpustats memstats" mimics the "top" application with a graphic edge and remote monitoring capability. 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-langual 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. I cannot thank the authors of the tkTable, BLT, MIME/SMTP and the HTML libraries enough for their great work. In order to run moodss, you need to install the following packages (unless you can use the rpm utility, see below): Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 or above, at (or at a mirror near you) http://dev.scriptics.com/ or ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/ the latest tkTable widget library at: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/ the latest BLT library at: ftp://tcltk.sourceforge.net/pub/tcltk/blt/ eventually the latest tclperl library for writing modules in Perl, or the latest tclpython library for writing modules in Python at: http://jfontain.free.fr/ (see the INSTALL file for complete instructions, for UNIX and also Windows platforms). You also have the option of using the moodss rpm file (also in my homepage), if you are using a Redhat Linux system (6.0 or above). You can find the required tcl, tk, tktable, blt, tcpperl and other rpms at: http://jfontain.free.fr/ Whether you like it (or hate it), please let me know. I would like to hear about bugs and improvements you would like to see. I will correct the bugs quickly, especially if you send me a test script (module code with a data trace would be best). ### you may find it now at my homepage: http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-16.2.tar.bz2 http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-16.2.zip http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-16.2-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/moomps-1.4.2-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-16.2-1.spec Enjoy and please let me know what you think. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <mysql-unsubscribe-##L=##[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
