[Server-devel] [XSCE] sugarstats and xovis

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Martin Abente
<martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
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>> >> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
>> >> > does xovis supersede sugarstats?
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>> >>
>> >> From what I understand, sugar-stats runs at the dbus level as opposed
>> >> to the Journal metadata, which pulls data from the Journal backups.
>> >> xovis relies on data that it can get as json, pushed into couchdb. So,
>> >> while right now xovis uses json from Journal backups, it could be
>> >> modified to do so from the RRD files that sugar-stats produces. That
>> >> said, the data collected by sugar-stats is different, and needs to be
>> >> filtered accordingly before it can be used sensibly by xovis.
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>> > And there is the Harvest system, which for the most part relies on data
>> > in
>> > Journal.
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>> Yes, in fact we had conversations with Martin Abente about Harvest,
>> and the possibility that the Harvest data could be serialized (json)
>> and pushed into xovis. Are there any samples of Harvest data that we
>> can look at some place?
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> Hello Sameer,
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> The harvest-client serializes (using json) a subset of journal-objects
> metadata and then sends it to the harvest-server, which is basically a
> web-service plus a MySQL back-end.
>

Great! Then we can perhaps add a method to process_journal_stats.py in
XOVis to support Harvest.

> I need to update this documentation [1] (will do this tomorrow early), but
> you can get an idea of what fields are used. If you need an example of the
> serialized format for the client-server communication you can look at [2].
> The bits that handle the serialization process can be found here [3], which
> is meant to be read.
>

OK. Will take a look.

Sameer

> Regards,
> Martin.
>
> Refs:
> 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Harvest
> 2. https://github.com/tchx84/harvest-server/blob/master/test/data/data.json
> 3.
> https://github.com/tchx84/harvest-client/blob/master/extensions/webservice/harvest/harvest/crop.py
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>> Sameer
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>> > -walter
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We have RRD files from Bhagmalpur, India, but we haven't done much
>> >> with it as yet. I understand that AU may have a boatload of
>> >> sugar-stats data as well, but not sure if they got around to doing
>> >> anything with it.
>> >>
>> >> cheers,
>> >> Sameer
>> >> --
>> >> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> >> Professor, Information Systems
>> >> San Francisco State University
>> >> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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>> > --
>> > Walter Bender
>> > Sugar Labs
>> > http://www.sugarlabs.org
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>> --
>> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Professor, Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> http://commons.sfsu.edu/
>> http://olpcsf.org/
>> http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/