Great Progress

[oubiwann]

Well, things are going well on the dev front. I've been testing the
Twistsed-based portscanner that checks the hosts in a given netblock
(or blocks) for open TCP ports and then generates pymon config files
for those services (TCP ping check only). I'm in the middle of writing
the TCP ping checker (100% python, no need for an external tool or for
a local agent service to be running, which is what the current ping
checker uses) and should be done with that soon. That will leave me
with a few more areas to cover before a new release:
* testing scalability (in massive configuration deployments as well
as checks)
* continuing work on the storage component (which will replace the
global registry and pickled code)
* updating the HTTP status checker
* updating the HTTP content checker

I will likely make a testing release at this point for folks to give a
try, whet their appetite, and provide some feedback on. Then, in short
order, I will work on the following which will result in a follow-up
release:
* bug reports from the previous test release
* start initial work on messaging
* fine-tune workflow
* write a plugin HOWTO

Given the little time I have available to work on pymon, I'm really
surprised and excited about the amount that has happened in such a
short time. Several long-term goals have been met over the past two
months; seeing how I had anticipated those being completed a year from
then, this is most unexpected :-) I guess working for Divmod has
really given me a lot of energy and enthusiasm.

More soon,

d