27-Aug-2012

WASD update additions
The update left two links in error, both concerning performance logging: HyperSpixx, showing stored performance data, and Mondesi, for real-time control. The first one requires an agent that stores data in files, and these are presented uing a CGI-based execuatble. That program can no longer determine the nodename for which data is to be displayed, and when I restarted the agent, it failed without notice…
The second program is started from the browser, and requests data from the system using the system API to collect performance data, and displayes it in the browser window. The link does display the window but slightly distorted, but no centent….
Today, I installed the latest versions of these programs.
Mondesi – now version 2.1 – was installed without a problem, and it now shows the correct data.
HyperSpi – the WASD version – has been buiklt and installed, the agent started; it does start and created a file. But displaying the data still fails: No node supplied….
The version by Jean-François Piéronne however causes problems in building. It comes as a complete package that must now be compiled and linked – where originally, the object files were supplied and LINK was sufficient. so you now need a C-compiler, and, for the libraries used, you must use MMS (or Hunter Goatley’s MMK), if you want to use the BUILD.COM procedure.
I found the DESCRIP.MMS files used in buidling the library are incomplete – so I had to update the files before I could create the agent and web-application. The agent has been installed and works – but the web-application still gives an error ‘No node supplied’ – and the documentation that is supplied doesn’t show a reason….Or how to define the node. But here, there has been no change….
So still some work to do…
DCLInABox works
The terminal amulation over port 80 – using WebSockets – works, once a [world] entry was added to WASD_CONFIG_AUTH.CONF:
[world]
if (websocket:) * r+w,https:
before the authentication for the site. And this addition prevents direct access to the terminal connection., since the site itself is still acessed over SSL, and requires login just for that. In the admin page however, you won’t see the user that started the application. But that could well be handled by the logger.