big update

[Chad Whitacre]

Greetings,

Just in case anyone is listening, I just checked in a significant
changeset to the aspen trunk. I've folded the aspen.monitord
script into aspen itself. This means that the same infrastructure
used in development mode to restart the server when source files
change is now also used in production mode to restart the server
if/when the main (child) server process ever dies unexpectedly.

This update also includes logging configuration changes, as well
as tests for all changes. Once this update settles and I can
bring the documentation up to date, I plan to issue a point
release in the 0.8 line.

Thanks for listening. Would love any feedback on the latest changes.

chad

[LD 'Gus' Landis]

Chad,

Listening and encouraged!

I am disappointed in my level of effort helping on this,
but earning $ has been in the way of that.

Glad to see some movement on aspen, it is a nice
tool and has been serving some internal needs well.

I am planning to revamp the existing internal aspen
site and will plan to move up to this new release.

Is the main sourge for aspen still your site?:
http://www.zetadev.com/software/aspen/

What is there is the version that I am currently
running.

So, where are you on moving to Python 3?

Cheers,
--ldl

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[Chad Whitacre]

Gus,

Definitely understand the $ issue, I'm experiencing that too.
Haven't even started on Python 3 support for that very reason. :^/

The dev snapshots on zetadev.com are tracking trunk/, so they are
up to date, yes. When I get some docs written they'll show up
there too; likewise with the point release.

Care to say anymore about how you're using aspen? It's always
good to hear real-world use cases.



chad

[LD 'Gus' Landis]

Chad,

I have a gig at a major medical clinic supporting the
primary laboratory system.

The system is sort of "locked down" in that they don't
want a lot of "other" stuff running there.

I talked them into installing the IBM/AIX C compiler
on a non-production box, and proceeded to build up
a collection of tools: python, gnuplot, etc... and installed
the executables on the production box.

We collect data about the running application, # users,
# transactions / 5 minute period, size of the various
database tables, lots of stuff... then plot it to .png files.

Aspen then provides the web server that lets the mgmt
types look at the various graphs (which keeps them off
of our backs and entertains them)... It has proven to be
very helpful when having *those* discussions with the
various system administrators and the SAN team....
They'll start spinning some story, and so we just ask
them how that relates to this or that graph... which means
that we actually get some solutions to our complaints!

Right now, the internal site is pretty static, but I am
hoping to revamp it some over the next few months.
Aspen is great for the simple things we have to do,
and we haven't even done the cool stuff yet!

Cheers,
--ldl

[LD 'Gus' Landis]

oops... looks like the screenshot (ubuntu) didn't get itself
out of the way quickly enough on aspen-9.png... oh well,
you get the idea I hope.

[Chad Whitacre]

This is great, Gus, thanks. So aspen works for you because it's
pure Python? Easy to install in a "locked down" environment?

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[LD 'Gus' Landis]

Yup, and from just a regular, unprivileged user account
(of course, I can't use port 80, but 8080 is almost as
well known).

[Chad Whitacre]

And are you running it on Windows? Or just hitting it from
Windows in the screenshots?

[LD 'Gus' Landis]

NONO NOOOO! It is on AIX. The screenshots from the
Microsoft Impaired system is because I have to use their
funky VPN (which I haven't bothered to work out a real
solution for)...

So snapshots were from a VirtualBox hosted Microsoft
Windows 2000 instance running on Intrepid Ibex Ubuntu,
operating with their funky VPN.

[Chad Whitacre]

:^D

My apologies!