Hi,

I was reading the project ideas page for GSoC 2012. Site Status page sounded 
very enjoyable to me. I am working as a system administrator at university IT 
department and still continuing my Ph.D on computer engineering. This project 
can be very usable also for me. 

I was thinking how can i implement it and got some questions in my mind. I 
checked the status pages of the mentioned sites. They mainly give the uptime 
and service status. They look (esp Twitter and 37Signals) like blog sites. 
Except from the service status and uptime information, Site Status aims to give 
information about the link status also. It is also mentioned that system must 
be able to monitor other services, possible to write plugins. 

The first question is, whether this project requires both client and server 
side development. It is possible to get uptime and service status either by 
running a service at the server side or sending some packets from outside 
world. So should the project be designed as a web site that will accept domain 
name registrations and check them automatically without running anything at the 
machine(s) hosting these sites? 

The project explainations include two musts. One is appengine (or anyother 
cloud platform) and the other one is Network Administrator integration. I 
haven't got experienced with appengine but know some basics about it. Though, I 
have experince with Django. I dont know much about other cloud services. Can it 
be a good start, developing using appengine. 

Network Administrator integration will required a bit its source code checking. 
I haven't done it yet but will try installing it soon from the git repo 
https://github.com/amixpal/network-admin

Cheers.

-- 
Oguz Yarimtepe <[email protected]>
http://about.me/oguzy

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