FahMon 2.3.1

uncle_fungus · 30 Oct 2007 at 19:14

FahMon 2.3.1 Released

The latest and greatest version of FahMon has just been released, after several rounds of testing and breaking (thanks to all who tested various features). You can get to the most up-to-date version of FahMon by going to the download page, which now uses static links which automatically resolve to the latest version available.

The download page also has a link to the comprehensive changelog.

Things to look out for in this version are:

* Simplified how you add clients: Drag and drop the client folder into the client list, fill in the name, and away you go.
* Export to Web: A new "WebApp" module has been added which presents you with various ways of publishing the FahMon output to either webpages, or static text files. The Web Application option exports a fancy javascript powered webpage which mimics the FahMon interface.
* Update checking: FahMon can now check if a newer version is available online. This can be done automatically on startup, or manually from the FahMon menu

If you find any bugs with this version, please use trac, the online project manager to report them. http://trac.fahmon.net/

Precompiled binaries for various Linux distros will follow as I create them.

Cob · 30 Oct 2007 at 20:15

Cheers

shadowscotland · 30 Oct 2007 at 20:29

looking good so far - And I do like the deadline countdowns

uncle_fungus · 30 Oct 2007 at 23:59

Ubuntu debs are now up, this time with dependency info built in.

They will probably only work with gutsy though, as I don't think feisty has the same version of wxGTK that gutsy has.

SiriusB · 31 Oct 2007 at 00:03

shadowscotland said:
looking good so far - And I do like the deadline countdowns

What do you mean? I've had a countdown in my FahMon since 2.3.0. Just seems countdown is now default.

The only bug I have found is that the FahMon logo covers part of the title in the progress dialog for when downloading the latest projects.

Also, when choosing to export a simple text file, by default it doesn't set a .txt extention. Not a huge issue but you can't just rename the file with .txt because FahMon will just generate a new one

Only a small matter but it might annoy a few people

All of the above is the Windows version. Haven't tried it in Linux yet.

I would like to propose one change, perhaps make a text file that is easily parsed by say PHP or BASH/PERL etc etc yadda yadda. The current file can be parsed would be cumbersome. A comma/tab/space/whatever delimited list would have course be better. Just thought I would throw it out there, I know the current text file is so it can be read in a CLI environment so I am not saying you should change that particular file.

uncle_fungus · 31 Oct 2007 at 00:12

SiriusB said:
The only bug I have found is that the FahMon logo covers part of the title in the progress dialog for when downloading the latest projects.

I'll take a look at that, I didn't think the progress dialog even had the logo on it...

SiriusB said:
Also, when choosing to export a simple text file, by default it doesn't set a .txt extention. Not a huge issue but you can't just rename the file with .txt because FahMon will just generate a new one Only a small matter but it might annoy a few people

From a shell it makes no difference. `cat ~/fahmon_out` and `type c:\fahmon_out` should do the same thing. Unless you name the file the same as a folder...but that would be stupid

I'll see if I get anymore complaints.

SiriusB said:
I would like to propose one change, perhaps make a text file that is easily parsed by say PHP or BASH/PERL etc etc yadda yadda. The current file can be parsed would be cumbersome. A comma/tab/space/whatever delimited list would have course be better. Just thought I would throw it out there, I know the current text file is so it can be read in a CLI environment so I am not saying you should change that particular file.

I'll think about it, it wouldn't be a major change to the existing code.

uncle_fungus · 18 Nov 2007 at 23:02

OK, if you've been watching the fahmon website you've probably noticed I've cleared several of the bugs reported for v2.3.1.

I now need some testers, preferably those using FahMon to monitor lots of rigs, to check whether the new code fixes two of the major bugs in FahMon.

The first being:
* FahMon occasionally replaces client locations with lines from FAHlog.txt

The second being:
* FahMon will start using 100% CPU time with an awry monitoring thread.

To this end I've packaged up the latest SVN revision, which you can download here:
http://fahmon.net/downloads/testing/FahMon-SVNr119.zip (Win32)
and here:
http://fahmon.net/downloads/testing/FahMon-SVNr119.tar.bz2 (Linux)

Snapshot · 19 Nov 2007 at 10:14

uncle_fungus said:
The first being:
* FahMon occasionally replaces client locations with lines from FAHlog.txt

I've seen that one a couple of times at my borged site, monitoring ~40 clients. Unfortunately, I'm about to be away for ten days so can't test it for you.

SiriusB · 19 Nov 2007 at 16:10

My Gutsy install is being a bit funny lately so I don't think I should test the new FahMon. Whatever I did to my system may effect FahMon

magman · 20 Nov 2007 at 10:30

Just tried to download the Win32 version, without success. Tried in both IE and Firefox.

I'll be happy to test it once I can get a copy (I'm running 23 clients and I've experienced the first bug a couple of times already).

uncle_fungus · 20 Nov 2007 at 11:34

magman said:
Just tried to download the Win32 version, without success. Tried in both IE and Firefox.

I'll be happy to test it once I can get a copy (I'm running 23 clients and I've experienced the first bug a couple of times already).

Hmm, the link works fine for me...are you getting 404s?

magman · 30 Nov 2007 at 12:11

First the good news.

I tried again, after your reply Uncle, and I successfully downloaded and ran the new version.

Now the bad news - I've just had the error re-appear where the Location is overwritten with data from the FAHlog for 3 of my clients.

What if any data do you need me to send to you to help diagnose this bug?

magman · 30 Nov 2007 at 16:30

That's funny. FahMon crashed and when I restarted it, the configs for the 3 clients that were in error are now working OK again.

I'll keep an eye on it to see how it behaves in the future.

shadowscotland · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:24

as I've been doing some stress testing (noticed i was at 2.8 not 2.9 as my sig says - now at 2.9 on the min volts my board does

) i swaped back to standard units for a good few hours prior to restarting SMP (ubuntu/VMw) and noticed this.

removing client or reloading it give same reply (sure I wasn't like this earlyier. think it start after 'check for updates' and 'download new projects'

Edit - just did a reboot all sorted now

Biffa · 11 Dec 2007 at 01:29

Unka Funka,

I'm quite often getting the *Hung* message

Mattus · 11 Dec 2007 at 16:45

I got the same thing as SS the other day with the same time remaining.

49710d 04h 10min comes to 4,294,959,000 seconds, which is very close to 2^32 / the limit for an unsigned 32-bit integer... I dunno if this is just a coincidence!

uncle_fungus · 13 Dec 2007 at 01:03

@Biffa: Have you got your timezone set to UTC + 0?

@Mattus: It's no coincedence. It's what happens when FahMon produces a "Not a number"

When I get some free time I'll take a look at why its still doing this, among other things.

Biffa · 14 Dec 2007 at 01:36

I didnt' that fixed it ta

Stan_Lite · 14 Dec 2007 at 05:30

Biffa said:
Unka Funka,

I'm quite often getting the *Hung* message

Me too also as well.
It's fine for 3 or 4 steps and then goes into "Hung" - restarting FahMon has no effect, the only way to get it going properly is to reboot the machine but it just does the same again.

Only having the problem on the Gutsy rigs using the package downloaded from the site. I haven't tried compiling myself yet to see if it's the package.

The windows installer works fine with no problems I've been aware of.

Biffa · 14 Dec 2007 at 20:12

Manually setting the timezone to UTC +0 fixed it for me, I had it at +1

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