Re: configuration, GUIs etc

[Stuart Poulton]

Patrick,

Sounds great.

Cheers

Stuart

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 09:14, Patrick Lidstone wrote:
> Just a quick note to tell you chaps what I've been working on
> recently...
>
> I have put together a Win/32 GUI for xAP devices - a kind of dash
> board (xAP-Dash). The dash discovers all instances of xAP devices
> automatically, monitors heartbeats and provides a hierarchical
> explorer-type view of them/their status, so you can see at a glance
> if something is wrong.
>
> The dash supports dynamic plug-ins, so each device can have its own
> custom configuration dialogue embedded into the app. This can extend
> to a control panel, allowing simple testing/manual interaction with
> the remote device.
>
> I've been playing with configuration protocols, and think I have
> something workable - I can detect conflicting updates from two
> different points on the network and can also potentially restore
> configuration to a device that has soft-reset. One or two more
> wrinkles to iron out.
>
> Bringing all xAP components together in one place from anywhere the
> network works really well.
>
> I'll post some screen shots when I get a bit of time. I plan to
> document the plugin API once it's all stable if anyone wants to add
> support for their own devices.
>
> Patrick
>