Notes re: AG Node Management

[Ivan R. Judson]

Oh the only other thing I forgot was that one of the apps, probably
NodeManagement.py was looking for a bitmap that isn't in cvs, but luckily it
is in AccessGrid\icons.py so I just imported it from there. But this brings
up the point that we should name things in icons.py more generally,
defaultServiceIcon, defaultUserIcon, defaultNodeIcon, defaultDoorOpenIcon,
defaultDoorClosedIcon...etc.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan R. Judson [mailto:judson at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:13 PM
> To: 'Thomas Uram'; 'ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov'
> Subject: RE: Notes re: AG Node Management 
> 
> 
> 
> Here's my list of things that were missing. I got this stuff 
> working on my laptop.
> 
> #1) Vic -- I used the stock UCL vic from the ag webpages, it 
> installed itself in \Program Files\mbone\vic.exe. This was 
> fine for the actual service, but the setupvideo.py bailed 
> hard until I did this (a trick I found via google):
> 
> os.system('"\\Program Files\\mbone\\vic.exe" -u %s 
> 224.2.2.2/2000' % (tclScriptFile) )
> 
> Apparently the '"..." ' does what it should and passes "" to 
> the shell to keep the spaces working.
> 
> #2) The next thing was the need for direcories I didn't have 
> (and the need to create them). This should become something 
> in the configuration file for these services (every service 
> should have a config file! :-). Then if they don't exist the 
> user can be prompted to either supply one or use the 
> specified default.
> 
> #3) The final thing (I think) was that the service packages 
> are not actually present. We need to package them up for the 
> (binary/user) install and have them put in the default place. 
> Users don't want to have to find *.svc and *.py (that 
> correlate) and zip them up in pairs...really. I don't even 
> want to have to do that. We should have a python script 
> that's part of the release engineering tools to do this, it 
> knows about zip archives.
> 
> Other than that it was great; Oh, the last thing. 
> VideoConsumerService.py bailed after import sys because of 
> line feed stuff. I know I have never touched this file, so I 
> *can't* be to blame :-).
> 
> --Ivan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> > [mailto:owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Thomas Uram
> > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:15 PM
> > To: ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: Notes re: AG Node Management 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Here are my notes to help in packaging, installing, and
> > running the Node 
> > Management side of the AG 2.0 code.  I walked through using 
> the code 
> > with Ivan, and will try to do this with Ti before I go.
> > 
> > Wish I could be here for the alpha,
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > 
>