Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote: >> I made a plugin some time ago, which has the intention of implementing the >> functionality of nerd in nfsen. You can find it at >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=188986&package_id=221315. >> > > Hey, that's cool! :-) > More precisely: it is better than I could imagine ever. > > >> I am not completely happy with it, as it's functionality is pretty close to >> the functionality of the alert page. And I think it would be better to focus >> on the alert page than on this plugin. But it's frontend might be useful for >> your purpose. >> > > Now a new point of view arises. > What is the better? > - every plugin implements its own alert list infrastructure; > - it may be a central alert manager that accepts input from several > plugins; > > IMHO the second one seems to be better. > We should specify a flexible and powerful interface between > backend blugins and alert manager. > I totally agree with you that it should be the second option, and I think that is also Peter's idea (the alert-action plugins). I don't think that the structure I used in my plugin is sufficient for that, as it requires an extra database table for each type of alarm, which would make them hard to maintain. Maybe it is an idea to let the plugins return an IODEF document (possibly with a custom Nfsen extension to include support for filters) when they fire? We could use XLS to transform it to a line in an alert table, to an e-mail or to anything else. It can even be used to directly send alerts to incident report systems (AIRT has support for iODEF).
Werner > What do you think? > > Gabor > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nfsen-discuss mailing list Nfsen-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfsen-discuss
