{"id":177,"date":"2006-06-02T09:32:53","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T09:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2006-06-02T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T09:32:53","slug":"non-google-summer-of-code-proposal-distributed-monitoring-of-the-jabber-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Non-google Summer of Code proposal: Distributed monitoring of the Jabber network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This was initially a Google SoC project proposal. Someone got a grant to work on this, but then, he got another grant to work on another project, and he chose to work on the other one&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The Jabber network isn&#8217;t really known for its reliability: servers are often down, or are unable to contact other servers. And most server admins don&#8217;t have tools to detect such problems. There&#8217;s some data on <a href=\"http:\/\/public.jabbernet.dk\/mrtg\/\">http:\/\/public.jabbernet.dk\/mrtg\/<\/a>, but it&#8217;s far from being enough.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this project is to build a testing framework to be able to monitor the public servers and answer those questions :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do client connections using SASL, TLS or SSL currently work on server <i>foo.com<\/i> ? (not only checking if the TCP port is open, but do full login)<\/li>\n<li>Do server-to-server communications works between server <i>foo.com<\/i> and <i>bar.com<\/i> ? What about latency ? (To determine that, you need to connect to both servers and exchange <i>ping<\/i> messages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course one would need a nice way to vizualize such data (matrix + rrdtool graphs ?)<\/p>\n<p>Additional ideas :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow server admins to set a contact email, so they can be informed of problems (and\/or provide an RSS feed)<\/li>\n<li>Integrate this into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmpp.net\/\">XMPP Federation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would like to work on this, but I won&#8217;t have time. If you are interested, please contact me !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This was initially a Google SoC project proposal. Someone got a grant to work on this, but then, he got another grant to work on another project, and he chose to work on the other one&#8230;) The Jabber network isn&#8217;t really known for its reliability: servers are often down, or are unable to contact other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jabber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}