Re: Some feature notes for monit, volume III

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> > I think it would be much better to unify functions that read RAM 
> > structures to one skeleton and call the tag printing routines in 
> > accordance to the format requested. This way all formats would provide 
> > the same set of information and there is only one code to maintain.
>
>
> Excellent suggestion. The design would be somewhat similar to
> [XML->XSLT->to whatever] which is a good model.

I'm  working on this 'by accident' ;) I'm implementing historical/status 
data for m/moit. To simplify and unify monit service status, i though 
that it will be good to colect data once to the memory structure and 
then present it as many times as needed without need to gather it again.

It simplifies the code a lot and provides:

- common service error bitmap (maintained by event engine). It allows to 
display state by one simple function

- one-time data gathering, which places the actual service parameters 
data into the memory structure. It provides consistent view between main 
and http thread, simplify the code a lot and allows the addition of 
simple code which just presents the collected data. One of these 
presentation channels will be binded to m/monit data collector.

I think it will be ready probably next week or later (i can't work on it 
more hard because of baby ;)

Martin