Subj : Re: BinkP Utility - Stats Generator
To   : Jeff Earle
From : g00r00
Date : Mon May 10 2021 03:10 pm

 JE> Something like this would be helpful:
 JE> 
 JE> Area                     In msgs     Out msgs   Bad Dupe  In bytes   Out

There are some generic open sourced JAM utilities that produce reports like this but it would't include the dupe stuff and I can't for the life of me remember where to find any of them.

There may be one or two people who made similar things specifically for Mystic too, but again I don't know what those are I just remember hearing things.

I can see the IN/OUT messages on a per-base level being a good thing to track and right now it has to come from log parsing MUTIL, so that is one place for some enhancements.  But even if that is tracked internally that still doesn't tell you anything unless you specifically go look.  Maybe what we're really looking for could be some automated notifications when certain things happen?

 JE> I see it as the 1st line of defense of something that may be wrong and
 JE> point to where to look in the logs instead of having to comb through
 JE> them.

If error tracking is your end game then there are some things you may not be aware of, although they are more designed to be
hub-based automation features.  Mystic does track things like crash errors, in/out files and bytes via BINKP. You can see all of these stats for each node in the EchoNode Editor whenever you want...

There is also the "Echo Node Tracker" which will handle all sorts of automated tasks for hubs like resetting stats on time-based intervals, automatically deactivating nodes after periods of inactivity, unsubscribing msg/file bases after automated deactivation, purging outbound packets after inactivity period, automatically swapping from "crash" to hold-type mail delivery after a certain
number of days of errors or overall error threshhold, etc.

But again all of that either happens automatically or requires you to make the effort to go look yourself.  Perhaps we need to build in notifications?

Open to any ideas of course, if you (or anyone else) has them.

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