That's really good, Dirk. The thing that would complement it perfectly is the ability to execute a specified alert at a certain time each day, rather than on each check cycle. The exec/status alerts come close to this, but are still based around check status. I'd really like to be able to say "every day at (around) 7am, send an email saying xxx and execute a command to do yyy."
Cheers, Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit "Dirk Bulinckx" <d...@woodstone.nu> Sent by: Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu> 08/12/2009 14:57 Please respond to Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu> To Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu> cc Subject RE: [SA-list] Roadmap A new alert was added - "Export setup to .REG file" (Execute Command - Internal Servers Alive command) - this will typicaly be used to generate a .REG file that will be included into a backup. Build 2322 or later … http://beta.woodstone.nu (http://beta.woodstone.nu/) dirk. From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:sal...@woodstone.nu] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:56 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Roadmap Exactly my thought. Servers Alive is not a backup software. However "preparing" the info for a real backup program is indeed something SA should do, and already does :-) At the startup of Servers Alive we create a file called "Servers Alive Settings.REG", this contains the SETUP (read registry) settings of Servers Alive. What I see as something possible is that we add an "alert" which is an "internal Servers Alive command" and that does this "again" (creating this .REG file), that way it's possible to have an executive alert that generates the .REG file just after midnight for example). dirk From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:sal...@woodstone.nu] On Behalf Of Jason Passow Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:15 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: Re: [SA-list] Roadmap Backup is not a function of a checking software it is a function of a backup up software. I do not think SA should be in the business of providing a backup solution (even for its own product). That being said registries are nto easy to backup and restore therefore, moving things out of the registry into an ini or something or automatically exporting the registry entries to the Salive directory would be nice. Jason Passow Mississippi Welders Supply http://www.mwsco.com jas...@mwsco.com ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ian.g...@okieurope.com To: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:sal...@woodstone.nu] Sent: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:05:16 -0600 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 _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit "Dirk Bulinckx" <d...@woodstone.nu (mailto:d...@woodstone.nu)> Sent by: Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)> 06/12/2009 19:35 Please respond to Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)> To Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)> cc Subject [SA-list] 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....?? 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