Re: Re: Working Version of Net_Monitor - Please Review :)

Hi Justin Patrin who wrote:

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:49:47 +0100, bertrand Gugger <bertrand@toggg.com> wrote:

I'm quite disapointed to realize that all alerts are allways sent to all users. I had imagined the user are registered pro service...

As I've said before, an admin tool is not in the scope of this package IMHO. This package is supposed to e-mail/SMS to people when services state changes. You could quite easily add some kind of frontend which takes the e-mail addresses and options from the DB and has an admin tool which allows (un)subscribing. In general, packages in PEAR are supposed to be one-job packages. They do one thing and can be re-used for many possibilities, either simply or in a more complicated system. Again as I've said before I totally agree on this point.

The frontend what could be needed in some applications using Net_Monitor should not be in the package, or only as draft example. I agree some neat application could allready be built with the foreseen interface. Nevertheless, the package could offer some oportunity to handle the services and users. That's surely related to this recent get/set OO discussion. It's a way for Net_Monitor to preserve some future evolution and hope it can adapt itself to more extremal situations. à+ -- bertrand Gugger (toggg)