[AG-TECH] New Gentner Software

[Allan Spale]

Greetings,

Personally, I think this effort should be coordinated and structured
through the AGiB Development Team (unless they are already involved with
something).  This would be an important accomplishment for the next
release of AGiB.  And I am sure testers are just eagerly waiting something
new to test [I know I am ;)].

Also, maybe some sort of API could be generated that would allow
extensibility for the future.  For instance, maybe right now people are
only going to control their node-related software.  But, as the AG
capabilities expand, maybe there will be a need for remote controls to
control scientific equipment or other applications that people have not
yet considered.  I am remembering this stuff discussed during some session
of the AG Retreat at Argonne.  Basically, this would be a good time to
engineer an AG programming framework.

Just some thoughts.


Allan
EVL/UIC 
node-op

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jay Beavers wrote:

> I control all of my Windows XP based nodes over the network today,
> including all A/V settings as well as adjusting my network diagnostic
> tools to suit the network situation of the hour ;-)  I do this using
> Remote Desktop / Remote Administration which is an integral feature to
> Windows XP / Windows 2000.
> 
> 
> We've been asked to consider a web management interface to each of the
> Windows XP nodes for use by network technicans et al who we don't want
> to give remote desktop capabilities to but who need to be able to
> monitor diagnostic status and adjust settings on an individual node
> basis.  That's high on our priority list.
> 
> 
> Regarding the security comment, I've run Windows NT et al, Linux, and
> BSD boxes on the net in production capacity since 1994 and have never
> had a box on any OS compromised in any way because I spent the time
> during setup to properly secure them and spend a few minutes each week
> checking logs and checking for security related patches.
> 
>  - jcb
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Buchhorn [mailto:Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:52 PM
> To: Robert Olson
> Cc: Don Morton; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] New Gentner Software
> 
> 
> 
> Well, if we're adding wishes to this list... :-)
> 
> Allow this control application to run over the network, so that one 
> operator can manage multiple nodes, or a remote operator can manage a
> given 
> node.
> 
> At first blush, a web browser would make a very nice harness for this. 
> Perhaps implement as Apache modules? (apologies to Jay ;-) ). Save you 
> having to develop at both ends of the network pipe (as with e.g. a Java 
> applet).
> 
> If it's lean enough, it could be driven from a PDA :-)
> 
> Jay - can you put some hooks into your pending A/V application (the one 
> with the misshapen playback buffers ;-) ) that would allow it to be 
> controlled remotely?
> 
> We could also pick up some of the hacks that allow you to drive the
> various 
> PTZ cameras through a web page. It could also hook into
> monitoring/logging 
> systems...
> 
> Cheers,
>          Markus
> 
> At 06:23 PM 26/07/2001 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
> >That's precisely what I'm thinking. Audio levels & control available
> >per-mic, aggregate outgoing, aggregate incoming, and per-site incoming;
> 
> >fine tuning of video, placement, etc etc.
> >
> >--bob
> >
> >At 05:21 PM 7/26/2001 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
> >>Bob Olson wrote:
> >> >
> >> > That would be a great thing if someone wanted to do it. It's not 
> >> > hard, just a fairly large amount of detail to cope with to get it 
> >> > useful & right. There are other reasons for doing just htat, 
> >> > including enabling hte creation of a unified control panel 
> >> > application.
> >>
> >>
> >>Am I reading this correctly?  Are you envisioning a single control 
> >>panel for vic, rat, gentner, etc., all to maybe run on control 
> >>machine? Strikes me as a wonderful thought (if that's what you were 
> >>thinking) and maybe something I might want to add into my Research 
> >>Experience for Undergraduates proposal (the other thing is a 
> >>distributed PDF viewer so we're not restricted to Power Point in our 
> >>presentations).
> 
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