Re: [certi-dev] graphical tool for Certi

[Eric Noulard]

2009/6/18 Maxim Gammer <address@hidden>
> Hi
>
> We have completely moved to CERTI and everything works fine, but...
>
> There is no graphical tool for federation monitoring (federation list,
> connected federates, attributes values) Something like this -
> http://www.hwacreate.com.cn/English/Business/Simulation/DistributedInteractiveSimu/images/pRTI_clip_image002.gif

True :-(

> In order to solve this problem we're going to create a GUI, that will
> connect as additional federate and will allow us to monitor attributes
> values,

Note that if you currently use commercial tools may be like
http://www.pitch.se/products/recorder, you **may** be able to use
those with CERTI.
Those kind of tools must be some "Standard Federate".

> but how can we get other info? (who is connected, IPs and so
> on...) Or maybe we're inventing a wheel? :) Maybe there is already
> such tool?

As far as I know there is currently no such tool.

In fact concerning HLA "management" data (who is connected, number of
federate,  IPs and so on...)
this should be implement as the HLA MoM (Management Object Model) service.
There is currently no MoM service in CERTI.
If someone begins to work on this he/she should target IEEE1516 MoM.
There is a task open for this on the task tracker:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?6908

I would be glad to assign it to some people and discuss the forseen
implementation.

Part if not all the informations needed for MoM may be found
"somewhere" in the RTIG but there is
no corresponding object instance registered, thus you can not
subscribe to this information.

Concerning MoM produced value I have some serious concern about performance
(when and how often should the RTI should send UAV for those values).
We should think carefully about it while implementing it.
I would even find it  wise to make it optional (you can run with or without it).
High perf demanding federation may want to avoid such service.

> Another tool we think of - FED-file editor. Something like this -
> http://www.hwacreate.com.cn/English/Business/Simulation/DistributedInteractiveSimu/images/Visual%20OMT_clip_image001.gif

As far as I know there is no open source OMT editor, but again commercial tools
which generate HLA 1.3 / IEEE-1516 fed/wml file should perfectly work
with CERTI.

I found that one which is "downloadable"
http://www.federationgrid.org/Develop/ModelEditor.htm
but seems Windows only and not open source at all.

I would welcome in the CERTI project such a tool, could be in applications/
or directly in CERTI. Such a tool may be implemented in portable
scripting language
(e.g. Python) this way it would be easilly usable on many platform.


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