Release 1.0 of our network management software tkined and scotty is
now available on ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [134.169.34.15]. The files are:
/pub/local/tkined/tkined-1.0.tar.gz
/pub/local/tkined/scotty-1.0.tar.gz
There are some more incompatible changes to tkined's tcl interface. I
added a general attribute mechanism that allows an application (or a
user) to define arbitrary attributes for tkined objects. I also turned
strip- and barcharts to full objects (they are no longer a special
representaion of node objects). This requires updates on all scripts
that use them, but it makes things easier to understand, use and
implement.
I also changed the way color, icon and font information is stored.
tkined now uses X11 color and font names and bitmap file names which
should make *.tki files more portable if users use different
tkined.defaults definitions. You should not see any problems with this
because tkined will accept the old format.
A new 'ined flash <id> <secs>' command has been build into tkined to
turn icon flashing on for a given period of time. This can be used by
monitoring scripts to indicate problems. As an example how this can be
used by monitoring applications, I added a threshold mechanism to the
monitoring scripts (see the 'Modify Monitor Job' command) which allows
you to define thresholds (stored in an attribute of a tkined object).
A monitoring job checks the threshold and does some action (writing a
log, sending syslog messages or flashing an icon) if the threshold has
been reached.
Because of local interest, Erik wrote a query interface to the
network time protocol (NTP) for scotty. The IP-Trouble and IP-Monitor
scripts contain commands to retrieve and show NTP status information.
I hope that this release has fixed most problems. The tcl interface to
tkined should now be stable. Our future work will focus on new or
improved applications (including the already discussed SNMPv2
interface). Again, let us know if you have problems with this version
or any ideas to improve tkined and scotty.
Juergen