X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ReleaseNotes;h=658cdd8a77ece8abfa000f9980596ba090148507;hb=6022667a37c82e4a68ca98c70a1d79efa4608d26;hp=341f58f1af0bd5db6327f5dd01c2dc8d5df05fa8;hpb=01c1c500ddf5357223edc98ccbcce3efdcb73ce4;p=sysdb.git diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 341f58f..658cdd8 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -9,10 +9,13 @@ About SysDB: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ “System DataBase” (SysDB) is a multi-backend system management and inventory - collection service. It may be used to (continuously) collect information - about your systems from various backends (inventory services, monitoring - services, etc.) and provides a unique interface to access the information - independent of the active backends. + collection service. It stores system and inventory information about + hardware and software systems. This information is (continuously) collected + from various configurable backends (inventory services, monitoring services, + etc.) and stored in a graph-like hierarchy of generic objects. The store may + be queried through a generic interface independent of the active backends. + Object names are canonicalized before they are added to the store to ensure + a consistent view of your infrastructure. @@ -44,6 +47,15 @@ Version 0.1.0, Release Date: tbd listen addresses. * query language: The store may be queried using the ‘LIST’, ‘LOOKUP’, and ‘FETCH’ commands returning JSON formatted objects. + * utils: A rich set of abstract data-types and utility functions for + internal use: + - generic channels for asynchronous, multi-threaded I/O + - DBI wrapper to ease common database access operations + - thread-aware error handling and reporting + - doubly linked-lists + - dynamic sized memory buffers supporting formatted strings and binary + data + - UNIX socket client implementation * documentation: Full documentation for the tools, all plugins, and the query language provided as manpages and HTML pages. * testing: Unit and integration tests exist for most parts except plugins