argus server and client distribution packages

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Borja,
   Yes they are tightly coupled, but there are some reasons to
think of them as separate.

   Hopefully, and that is a hopefully, argus, the server, will
not change much once its released and settled down.  Other than
bug fixes, I'm not planning on adding much, maybe 1-2 
mini releases this year.  So, the argus server should be rather
stable.  This is on purpose, so we can get some buy in on
the data, and get support for porting the core server to other
platforms, and possibly integrate it into a few kernels.

   Argus clients should multiply this year, I hope, at a pretty
good pace.  I'm planning on developing a number of analytic
programs and a Perl Argus Module, myself, and I'm hoping that
everyone will be moved to contribute all of their argus clients.
So, the argus client side should be pretty active.  DB clients,
archiving agents, data multiplexors, better aggregators, port
scanners, NMS agents, snort integration, all of these can be
considered as clients, working off of a common data set.

   I don't have any problem with having each a separate package,
but I'm not excited about the other extreme, which would be to
bundle them all into one package that is released when something
gets updated.

   I can see distributing argus-2.0.0 as a single package, and
splitting them later.  I guess the real question is, "Should we
bite the bullet now"?

What do you think?

Carter

Carter Bullard
QoSient, LLC
300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
New York, New York  10022

carter at qosient.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> [mailto:owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Borja Marcos
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 10:24 AM
> To: Carter Bullard
> Cc: Argus (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: argus server and client distribution packages
> 
> 
> > Carter Bullard wrote:
> > 
> > Gentle people,
> >    So what do you think of splitting the distribution into
> > a server package and a client package?
> 
> 	Humm. They are closely-coupled. I think it would better
> be a single package.
> 
> 	I find it clumsy to be up to date with more than one
> tarball. One example may be Nessus, the security scanner,
> and the most extreme is the Gnome desktop.
> 
> 
> 
> 	Borja.
> 
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