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- Trion offline GUI Maintenance monitor.
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- (c) Copyright Paul Spijkerman, '96-'97. All rights reserved.
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- Written for use with the Trion BBS package.
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- The system has an offline GUI Maintenance editor in which
- events are listed which need maintenance. When you click on
- a new file or new user the offline GUI file or user editor
- with that file or user is started.
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- I made a system for helping out sysops with maintenance.
- Changed the system so Utils can notify TronRM if problems
- show up this needs very few bytes in the programms itself.
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- When something happens that needs attention from the sysop
- (read maintenance) like new users, unknown echo mail areas (TagNames),
- uploads, bad packets .. it would be handy if these events where
- logged in a special log .. well .. it would be even handier if
- it wasn't a log but a binary file which could be used by a programm
- that could assist with the maintenance .. a maintenance agent.
- A more or less automated programm that can assist with or do
- the maintenance or start the apropriate editor for instance.
- The maintenance programm can have some intelligent algoritmes
- to take care of these things ... which means that the programms
- itself (BBS, TMP, TICK, etc) don't need a lot of 'smart' code to try
- to handle these events.
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- I have edited a vew programms (tmp, tick, bbs) so they send
- these events to TronRM.
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- Add this moment there are 5 groups of events, USERS, MAILER,
- MAIL, FILES and TICK.
- The current programmed events are:
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- New user logged in.
- Mailer pasword error
- Freq password error
- Unknown echomail area
- No route address found for netmail
- Bad mail archive
- Bad mail packet
- New upload
- Unknow tick area used
- No file with a tick file
- CRC error in file send with tick
- Ticked file already in filebase
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- Note that this system is not ment for little things (errors)
- like carrier lost, or a problem with low CPS or something
- but the things that need the attention of the sysop.
- (or potential problems like password error).
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- For this maintenance system there is an maintenance monitor
- called "MaintMod".
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- It is basically a viewer/handler for the list with
- all maintenance problems.
- You can click on problems you have handled, if you click on
- a line there is a star before that line so you know that
- that line doesn't need attention anymore.
- If you click on "clear old" the lines with a star are
- removed.
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- If you click on a file or user not only a star is placed
- but also the offline GUI file or user editor is loaded
- with that file or user in it so you can validate the
- file or user.
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- Note that some events are merged in the maintenance data file,
- so there are less events in the list.
- If there are echomail messages for an area that doesn't exists
- yet on the BBS, the number of messages for the first event
- is increased and the processed flag is erased.
- This is the same for unknown tick areas.
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- Note that the number of unvalidated files and new users
- in the TrionRM monitor are actually the number of unvalidated
- files and new users in the maintenance list.
- (files and users with a star are not counted)
- So if you clear the maintenance list these numbers are reset to zero.
- So unvalidated users are not users with a certain level but
- users you didn't click on in the maintenance monitor.
- Same goes with files .. the number is not the number of
- unvalidated files .. but the files you didn't click on
- in the Maintenance monitor .. so a little caution is needed
- but if you do a 'unvalidated scan' so now and then you're
- probably on track of all files.
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