path: root/torrus/TODO

Round Robin Database Framework
  
To do now:

-- index the parameters during compilation and add search function to UI
-- Update User Guide
-- Persistent maps in snmp collector
-- Multithreading in collector
-- Additive list parameters
-- New security model (access control within a tree)
-- New WebUI model
-- take the CF for graphing from view definition
-- implement new RPN functions: SORT, REV, TREND
-- Display docsIfDownstreamChannelTable docsIfUpstreamChannelTable in
   DOCSIS chanel legends
-- validate %Torrus::SQL::connections
-- periodically refresh SNMP collector mappings
-- Modular structure in Monitor, with pluggable actions
-- in Monitor::run_event_exec, distinguish between monitor target and
   action target
-- document selectors internals
-- fix the bug in recursive $def expansion
-- Move expandable parameters from ConfigTree.pm to XML config
-- dispersed timeoffsets for monitor
-- use Parallel::ForkManager in devdiscover
-- Set the daemon's log level by signal
-- Selector for Cisco CPU and memory buffer monitoring
-- Option to expand directory view by default
-- Traceroute plugin (Gustavo Torres)
-- CDef Collector plugin (Christian Schnidrig)
-- Optionally show Admin info when authentication disabled
-- RRD Renderer to take CF from the view definition
-- Do we need a separate directory for user-defined styling?
-- Startup script that verifies database consistency at server boot
-- Collector that reports the BerkeleyDB stats
-- Sysedge ntregperf discovery optimization (Shawn)
-- Check RRD DS name length limit (19 bytes) and variable name limit (29 bytes)
-- Better handling of SNMP timeouts in devdiscover
-- MS-SQL SNMP support? (Shawn)
-- Discovery profiles (router, server, etc.) to limit the number of probes
-- Per-tree styling profiles (CSS, color schemas, company name and URL)
-- Describe IF-MIB discovery internals in doc/devdoc/devdiscover.pod
-- New utility to verify the installation files consistency (see below)
-- rrd-create-max for interface counters tunable in vendor modules
-- Backup snapshot of dynamic data (monitor status etc.)
-- Relative path in alias definition
-- "Remember me" login screen option
-- Graph colouring by monitor action
-- Session history display
-- Track changes of XML configurations (XML::Diff, cvs-alike?)
-- Translate parameters in monitor comments
-- Show maximum value in the graph image comments

Design work to do:

-- Design draft for custom indexing and quering
-- Develop a Concept of 95th percentile monthly reports
-- Reports generation (monthly, weekly etc.)
-- Write working draft for "collector-copy" datasource type

To do before Release 1.0.1:

-- Implement monitor escalation (devdoc/wd.monitor-escalation.pod)
-- BUG: template may add children to a leaf
-- Add more documentation to the existing XML
-- Document HTML templates
-- Web interface for ACL editing
-- Date selector in Web interface
-- CSV data export (new Renderer type)
-- Syslog logging

To do someday:

-- Finish and test "RFC2662_ADSL_LINE" and "Paradyne" devdiscover modules
-- Backplane performance for Catalyst switches
-- VoIP dial peer statistics
-- Gradual highlighting for subtree listings
-- Tools for RRD files manipulation (adding/deleting DSes etc.)
-- Service uptime monitoring and reporting (devdoc/wd.uptime-mon.pod)
-- Distributed collector (devdoc/wd.distributed.pod)
-- Log files wraparound
-- Packaging for major OSes: RedHat, Debian, FreeBSD, Solaris, MacOS X (?)
-- rrdtool-1.1 font option (only after rrdtool 1.1.x is released)
-- navigation links to represent the network topology
-- Messaging (devdoc/wd.messaging.pod)
-- Tighter integration with OpenNMS and probably other systems
-- Several obscurity levels instead of hidden=yes/no


(C) 2002-2004, Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin@yahoo.com>

$Id: TODO,v 1.1 2010-12-27 00:03:35 ivan Exp $

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CC: rrfw-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Shawn Ferry" <sferry@sevenspace.com> 
From: "Shawn Ferry" <sferry@sevenspace.com>
Subject: Re: [rrfw-devel] health check 
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:08:35 -0500 
To: "Stanislav Sinyagin" <ssinyagin@yahoo.com> 
      
On Dec 15, 2003, at 9:56 AM, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:

> 'Morning Shawn,
>
> --- Shawn Ferry <sferry@sevenspace.com> wrote:
>>> It might be also that this installation uses old version of
>>> RRFW::Collector::SNMP,
>>> or some buggy version of Net::SNMP.
>>
>> Something like that...When I installed 1.5d I did not stop and
>> restart the collector. It is much happier now.
>>
>> Can you check at each initialization that the versions of all
>> the supporting files is up to date? or maybe stash the modify time
>> of files that are loaded and check.
>>
>> Not an issue just a thought to try and prevent
>> other people from having the same silly problem.
>
> good idea. But I can check the files on disk only, it's not possible
> (not easy) to check if the running process is up to date.
>
> bin/configinfo already prints some versions information.
>
> Let's say, an utility called "bin/checkfiles", would do the following:
>
> -- for files that are simply copied by make install: verify md5 sum 
> against that in distribution
>
> -- for files that are modified by make install: 
> verify md5 sum against that calculated during make install
>
> -- optionally store and verify md5 sums of user files in 
> share/rrfw/discovery and share/rrfw/xmlconfig, as well as 
> *-siteconfig.pl
>
> Does someone know if there's already something alike in other software?

Similar functionality exists in cfengine, but I don't think it is 
applicable in this case.
Also tripwire.

I am not so worried about knowing if the loaded version is up to date 
based on a
stored version string.  Although that was my original thought.

I was thinking that the functionality of the "checkfiles" utility could 
just be as you
suggest an md5 sum.  Also, that md5 sum could be stored at 
initialization for the libraries
used in any long running process. The next initialization after a 
compile could verify
that the on disk sums have not changed.  Possibly to reload, alert or 
something.

Shawn

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