managerComp

[Luis J. Manso]

I made an application to monitor and manage Ice components under GNU/Linux. It displays components, their states and dependences using a graph view. It has a built-in configuration editor to set the components to monitor and manage. When a component is required the components that it may need are executed first.

If can be downloaded from sourceforge: here

Demo: here

Does anyone know any better option?

[matthew]

Looks like a cool demo! However, its not clear to me exactly what this application is doing. Can you elaborate?

[Luis J. Manso]

Originally Posted by matthew

Looks like a cool demo! However, its not clear to me exactly what this application is doing. Can you elaborate?

The program monitors and manages the state of the configured components. It makes you able to turn on/off components in a graphic semi-automatic way and see whether your components are working or not. It also resolves component dependences.

I'll explain this in a real scenario: I have a robot which has a base, a camera, a pan/tilt controller, and a visual autonomous navigation component. The camera component needs the pan/tilt component in order to work properly, and the navigation component needs both the camera and the base component. If I tell the program to run the navigation component it will run the components in which it depends, and then the program will run the navigation component.

To edit the configuration (how to run components, define their endpoints, how to turn them off, and so forth) a XML configuration editor is provided. Component availability is checked in a thread which pings the endpoints with a configurable frequency.

Code can be also checked out from sourceforge:
svn co https://managercomp.svn.sourceforge....ot/managercomp managercomp

[matthew]

When you speak of component, what are you talking about? An Ice server, an IceBox service? It seems this is fairly similar to what IceGrid does... How does this differ from the functionality offered by IceGrid? Clearly the graphical view is quite different, but in terms of pure functionality how do things differ?

[Luis J. Manso]

Originally Posted by matthew

When you speak of component, what are you talking about? An Ice server, an IceBox service? It seems this is fairly similar to what IceGrid does... How does this differ from the functionality offered by IceGrid? Clearly the graphical view is quite different, but in terms of pure functionality how do things differ?

I mean an Ice server.

Maybe IcreGrid can do all what managerComp can do, but you don't need to read anything to know how to use managerComp. I think its really user-friendly, but in terms of functionality IceGrid is clearly above managerComp.

However, there are lots of applications that doesn't need something as big as IceGrid.

[matthew]

Sounds great! I hope your project is very successful!