Then a spong event occurs (or will occur), you can use this tool to acknowledge
that your know there is a problem. You can provide text that will be seen by
others looking at the event (via a spong display program). You can specify a
time limit that the problem will occur. If a problem has been acknowledged,
you will no longer receive notifications of the problem, and the spong display
programs will show the of the service(s) as "blue".
"Theory of Operation"
The www-spong-ack program is designed to interact with the www-spong
Spong display program, but it the program can be used if it is invoked directly.
When the program is initially invoked it will list all of the acknowledgments at
the top of the page in the "Current Acknowledgments" section. The host/service
and the expiration date/time of the acks are displayed. A Delete link is
provided for every ack. that will delete that particular ack. when selected.
Below in the "New Acknowledgment" section is a form form for creating a new
acknowledgment. The host name is selected from the drop-down box. The service(s)
to be acknowledged is entered in service field. The duration of the event is
entered in one of several formats into the duration field. Your e-mail address
should be entered into the e-mail address field. It is only used to show who
created the ack. And a message about the acknowledgement can be entered. Once
all of the information is entered, press the 'Create' button to create the
acknowledgement.
CONFIGURATION
"Configuration Files"
spong-cleanup reads the standard spong.conf and spong.conf.<host>
configuration files.
"Configuration Variables"
"$SPONGSERVER"
The host that at least the spong-server and spong-message
programs are running on. Typically the spong-network program runs on that
host as well.
"$SPONG_UPDATE_PORT"
This variable defines the port that the spong-server update process listens
on. If this variable is not defined on the $SPONGSERVER host, the
spong-server update process will not be started. The default value is 1998.
Based on code/ideas from Sean MacGuire (BB), and Helen Harrison (Pong). Ed Hill
original converted Big Brother (http://www.bb4.com) into Perl which diverged
from Big Brother to become Spong. Ed Hill continued Spong development until
version 2.1. Stephen L Johnson took over development in October, 1999 with his
changes which became Spong 2.5.