https://www.simplicidade.org/tags/ambrosio/index.xml Recent content in Ambrosio on Notes Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) (c) 2016 Pedro Melo. https://www.simplicidade.org/notes/2004/07/27/ambrosio-is-useful-now/ Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:05:38 +0000 melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) https://www.simplicidade.org/notes/2004/07/27/ambrosio-is-useful-now/ <p>The latest version of <a href="http://www.simplicidade.org/pocs/ambrosio.html">Ambrosio</a> is now useful. You can now send notifications from scripts or applications you write.</p> <p>I did this last sunday but I needed to write a small manual for notifications.</p> https://www.simplicidade.org/notes/2004/07/23/new-version-of-ambrosio/ Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:21:11 +0000 melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) https://www.simplicidade.org/notes/2004/07/23/new-version-of-ambrosio/ <p><a href="http://www.simplicidade.org/pocs/ambrosio.html">Ambrosio</a> is almost ready for major deployment. A new version is available (0.3), and now you can subscribe the bots presence.</p> <p>The roadmap is something like this:</p> <ol> <li> Finish Notice plugin: you drop small files in a specific directory, the local bot will pick them up and forward them to the JID's specified in the file - this allows for other scripts or applications in each one of your servers to send notifications; </li> <li> Better management of notifications and presence: don't send notifications to people that are away or disconnected. </li> <li> Multi-User chat support: its going to be nice to enter a room filled with your webservers and tell them <code>all, restart apache</code>, or having bots talking to one another like <code>people, bloody harvest at IP_ADDRESS</code> and have all the others block that IP via iptables</li> <li> Log watcher: probably just a gateway to a local swatch application? </li> <li> Start to think about a meta-bot: a bot controlling the other bots - he can receive notifications for disconnected users, and decide what to do with them: <ul> <li>forward part of the notification via SMS?</li> <li>send a URL pointing to the note?</li> <li>keep a log of unread notices?</li> </ul> </li> <li> Each plugin could have <i>variables</i> that he was willing to supply to some one: uptime can have the load, df can have free_kb_partition. These variables can be watched (you get some notification if they change, or if they trigger some threshold), or even logged (sql or rrdtool).</li> </ol> <p>I have more ideas, some totally crazy (like having a pam_bot that asks the admin of the machine if the person trying to logging can do so before allowing it :) ), others more useful.</p> <p>Remember that the core of <a href="http://www.simplicidade.org/pocs/ambrosio.html">Ambrosio</a> is likely to change in the near future. The plugins will most likely be compatible. But the core will change <b>a lot!</b>.</p>