Desktop Client

[Mike]

On 2006-09-19, Epp, Matthew Contractor PEO EIS AKO <matthew.epp at us.army.mil> wrote:
> I have created an application using wxpython that reports Hobbit/Big Brother
> events directly to your desktop, for either Unix or Windows platforms.
>
> There are three main components:
>
> 1> You configure your hobbit-alerts.cfg to send all events to a small perl
> script, which formats the data and sends it to a local UNIX socket.
> 2> Another perl script runs daemonizede and reads in the data from the UNIX
> socket. It then sends the events to any clients connected to it.
> 3> The client recieves all events, and does any filtering and further
> formatting for the end-user.
>
> It's still very alpha, but fully functional. Mainly I created this for our
> NOC which is sometimes very busy and occasionally alerts get missed if
> someone isn't eyeballing the web page constantly. The client can create
> pop-up windows, play sound files, etc that some are already familiar with
> from the old "bbtray" application.
>
> Although it still needs a lot of work, I'd like to start distributing it for
> people to try out and maybe offer suggestions or even assistance with. Is
> "The Shire" ready for user distribution of projects yet?
>
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What does the hobbit-alerts.cfg file look like for alerting on all events?

Mike