[Server-devel] [XSCE] xovis on the XSCE 5.0

[Sameer Verma]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Martin Dluhos <martin at gnu.org> wrote:
> On 06/24/2014 07:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> So, here are some observations:
>
> Thanks for the feedback, Sameer! Tim already addressed many of the things you
> point out in the latest xovis pull request, which has been merged into master
> (https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/pull/145). My comments follow inline.
>
>> XSCE should pull to get the latest from xovis (Tim Moody has already
>> written about this). I don't see the add deployment [+] button and
>> spider charts on the XSCE version.
>
> Fixed in #145.

I'll pull and take a look.

>
>> Add methods to pull from sugar-stats (currently stores data in RRD
>> format, but rrdtool does the export in versions 1.4.6 and above) and
>> harvest (already has serialized json).
>
> Yes, that would be very useful.

Anish Mangal and I have some data from Bhagmalpur, India is a RRD
format. We'll try to fiddle with it and see how the RRD to json goes.

>
>> Also add methods to read from
>> Sugar backups done using the Backup activity. Many smaller projects
>> have backups done by hand.
>
> Are you talking about projects, which do not use a server at all? If there is a
> server, one can always run a ds-backup.
>

True, but there are several projects that don't have a XS or XSCE, and
have collected backups via the Backup activity. I have some samples if
you want to take a peek.

>> Resolve the userid:password for couchdb (instead of admin:admin) in
>> ansible, so it installs with an account other than admin.
>>
>> A way to edit out the "OLENepal" header from all charts.
>
> Both handled in #145.

Great!

>
>> Maybe we spin a VM with CentOS and xovis (call it the visualizer!)
>> where you can plug in a USB stick or external drive with backups, and
>> visualize.
>
> I've just added the backup directory as an ansible variable.
>
>> Some basic documentation on the use of xovis and interpretation of
>> data for teachers, principals, etc.
>
> Perhaps a 'help' page?

+1

>
>> Something that's quite popular with many similar projects (deployment
>> of several mobile computers) is "How many laptops showed up at school
>> today?". There are a few different ways this can be done (dhcp log,
>> Journal data), but I'd like to discuss this a bit more.
>
> Since we already store Journal data, this wouldn't be too difficult to add. Good
> idea!
>
> Thanks for the feedback, Sameer!
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
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cheers,
Sameer