WOW Great, exactly what I was looking for
On Dec 15, 11:39 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting. I will look at your patch asap.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Dec 15, 5:49 pm, achipa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > A couple of reasons in this particular app:
>
> > a) To have per application settable cron functionality (with regular
> > vixie cron compatible syntax) from within web2py, without root
> > privileges, regardless of how it's run (cherrypy, mod_proxy, cgi or
> > mod_wsgi). AND, it should work on windows and mac as well. This in
> > effect makes it possible to just 'drop in' the monitoring application
> > via the web2py admin interface and it will hit the ground running. So,
> > to recap, in comparison to a 'classic' cron script or extra threads,
> > you do not need to restart web2py or the webserver (ever), if you DO
> > restart it your events won't get lost, you don't need root, you don't
> > need ssh, you don't need a system cron, has next to none overhead, it
> > doesn't care about the server OS, it just pretty much gives you good
> > 'ole cron syntax&functionality without the hassle. You could even make
> > a GUI editor for the cron tasks in the admin like you edit DB entries.
>
> > b) to have no delay for clients while the graph data/aggregation is
> > being done, or while the data is being inserted in RRD (I'd like to do
> > this via decorators, but I'm not a pythonista enough for that, yet).
>
> > c) I'm running apache WSGI, which makes threads very awkward (if not
> > done on the WSGI level). Starting a thread and then doing return
> > without mod_wsgi knowing about the thread is NOT what you want (been
> > there, done that, ended up on the mod_wsgi list and got the
> > recommendation which is in the patch now). CGI is even worse.
>
> > d) do I need more reasons ? :)
>
> > On Dec 15, 8:20 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > This looks cool. Sorry for the patch but I am a little behind. I hope
> > > to be able to look at ti again in the next few days. Could you tell us
> > > why the patch is necessary? You can start threads, store them in cache
> > > and monitor them without the patch.
>
> > > Massimo
>
> > > On Dec 15, 6:07 am, achipa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > There is an appliance, and I'm also working on something of my own, a
> > > > little teaser:
>
> > > >http://picasaweb.google.com/attila.csipa/WebmonSshot
>
> > > > It can do 'regular' graph style charts but is pluggable so you can
> > > > write custom reports (like in the first picasa image). The reason it
> > > > is not public yet is that it relies heavily on my connectiontask
> > > > (a.k.a. cron) patch which is still under consideration by Massimo (=
> > > > not in trunk).
>
> > > > On Dec 14, 4:13 am, voltron <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi there!
>
> > > > > Someone mentioned a project that was to use Web2py to monitor services
> > > > > on a system,has there been any progress? I am greatly interested.
>
> > > > > Thanks
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