Totally agree with the pre-defined alerts.
In my mind alerts should always be separate entities, one or more of which can
then be linked to a check.
And of course big support here on the separation of the engine and GUI, so that
SA will be able to run properly as a service on Microsoft's latest server and
desktop OSes. That's long overdue... (Sorry Dirk!)
P.
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From: ian.g...@okieurope.com (mailto:ian.g...@okieurope.com)
To: Servers Alive Discussion List (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [SA-list] Roadmap
Very much in favour of separating GUI and check engine. Also, here are a few
ideas we've discussed previously:
* Ability to set up predefined alerts (e.g. Alert A is an alert set up to send
SMS to engineer team X immediately; Alert B does the same but to engineer team
Y; Alert C is set up to send an email to management group Z after 3 downs,
etc). You would then, in each check, be able to say "use predefined alerts A, B
and D", as well as being able to create additional alerts for that specific
check. I could imagine this being done with tick boxes - i.e. have (say) 10
predefined alert types which you can select within a check. The point of all
this is that, if I need to make changes such as changing who gets the alerts,
or what the wording of the alerts are, or when they get sent, or even add a new
alert to a number of checks, one can simply change a single predefined alert,
and/or tick an additional box in each check that is to be affected.
* Automatic log file managment. E.g. delete log files older than x days.
* Ability to automatically backup config file and registry entries every x days.
* Individual days on the calendar component on the "On Call" tab for each
person should be selected by default - currently they are deselected by
default. (In other words, currently you have to select when they're on call,
rather than selecting when they're *not* on call. If that could be reversed,
that would be of much more use for us. Our typical scenario to use this is when
someone goes on holiday - it would be much easier to set someone to be "off"
for 28 days a year than to set them "on" for 337 days a year).
Cheers,
Ian
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Roadmap
One of those question we often get is "what will change to SA in the (near)
future", well here we go, our roadmap :-)
* Windows 2008 compatibility
* checking engine and GUI separated
* webinterface (<- have a look at the current beta and you'll
see that
we already have saWeb built-in now :-))
* db backend (instead of flat-file)
* boolean check (makes it possible to make a boolean
combination of
already executed checks)
When will all of that be done....?? Good question! Don't know :-)
I *hope* we can get all of this into the next major release, and no I don't have
a date for that :-))
Now how can YOU help us? Tell us what you think is missing from Servers Alive.
Try not only to focus on the "look" of it, but also think about CHECK - ALERTS -
OUTPUTS - ... that are "missing" (or better that would be nice to have too)
Dirk.
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