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• Spong TODO / Wish list
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Spong TODO / Wish list

Here are the features/changes that I and others want to make to spong. They are in no particular order, If you have any suggestions or comments, send email to sjohnson@monsters.org.

• Make web interface more configurable: (user selectable background colors/ method, table shading scheme) (DONE)
• Add option to use style sheets on Web Interface.
• Client support (spong-client) for NT (DONE)
• Server support (spong-server, spong-network, spong-display) support for NT
• Make spong-network more parallel, have it perform checks from a pool of children, that way if a system can not be ping'ed - it will not slow up the rest of the checks.
• Make spong-network check more often on hosts that do not respond on the first try (DONE)
• Add some limited event correlation to spong-network to not report service problems is a parent router/switch is unreachable.
• Optimize the communication between client and server - by pipelining reports through a single channel and perhaps compressing the data before sending it.
• Make it so that you can click on a host and find out status, history, configuration (inventory), and statistics. (starting to branch out). (DONE via configurable ToolBars in Web Interface)
• Integrate gstats (statistics collection) program. "spong-stats" (Ed Hill)
• Add an inventory/configuration module. "spong-config" (DONE via configurable ToolBars in Web Interface and packages called SysSymm)
• Continue modularizing to move towards Object Oriented as much as possible.
• Customizable notify messages in spong-message. (DONE)
• Add control ports to spong-client,spong-network, and spong-server to ultimately allow the programs to be control and configured remotely
• Add stats package to record and display status update information in RRD Tool databases. "spong-rrd" (DONE)
• Add SSL to Client/Server protocol for verification and security
• Be able to display hosts sorted and sectioned by groups. (DONE)
• Add "Sticky" events that can stay around until cleared or time limit expires.
• Add event handling API into spong-server for event handler modules
• Add summary status type to be able to send summary status messages to other Spong servers
• Add support for multiple Spong-Servers and fail-over capabilities for high availability (multiple Spong-Servers - DONE)
• Purple status (stale messages) checking and notification.

AUTHOR

Most recently updated on July 28, 2000 Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>