[Zope-dev] Zope Server Control

[Shane Hathaway]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Andy McKay wrote:

> > It's not fancy, but it's complete: you can watch and control multiple
> > servers from a single place.  The flashing yellow LED-like indicators
> > would give you a great deal of confidence that information is flowing.  
> > It sure would be appealing.  Anyone want to take this on? :-)
> 
> Yes :)
> 
> 1. There are already a few like this around, the ZopeController from 
> Richard Jones which Plone uses an modified version of... there is one 
> for another product as well although the name escapes me.
> 
> 2. We (as in Plone team) have for 1.1 a main requirement to move to a x 
> platform controller that can do that and much more. wxController as it 
> has been dubbed hasn't been started yet but Im tasked with writing the 
> PLIP now 1.0 has been done.
> 
> 3. I've found at least two companies that run many, many zope servers on 
> remote boxes all over the place and would like one ui to see the status 
> of them all, I'm trying to see if i can get some $ out of them for the 
> development :)
> 
> So is there a public cvs for your code can we mangle all our stuff together?

You misunderstand: I have zero code. :-)  The screenshot (especially the
second one) shows precisely what I'm looking for in a Zope controller.  
It should scale up to dozens of Zopes and ZEOs while remaining useful for
single Zope instances, it should display rapidly flashing lights to
indicate exactly how resources are being spent, and it should display a
Zope logo so it doubles as a marketing tool.  Consider the screenshot a
request.

I can post the QT .ui file, though, if that would help. ;-)

Shane