SensorBase Blog

I’ve been working on getting ready to move sensorbase or parts thereof to the thumper machine, but there are a lot of things to do before hand. I’ve had to move the old file structure to thumper for testing purposes, which seems to be taking quite a long time since it is so big.
People had also been complaining of SOAP issues, I’m unsure of where the problems may have arisen, but after restarting a few processes, the problem seems to have been quelled. If anyone knows more about this, people feel free to enlighten me.
Today we also got an email regarding an unresolved issue with the sensorbase website certificates for SSL. It is something that is been taken care of, and should be dealt with soon.
During one night this weekend I’ll be taking mysql down for a short period to perform a dump of the database in order to start the transfer process to thumper. This should happen at a relatively light load time for sensorbase, and will hopefully not affect the vast majority of users. If you’re planning on collecting data throughout the weekend, I ask that you consider changing your days, or not try to slog any data after 10pm this weekend. I’ll probably post something on the website when things actually happen. The reason why I can’t give a firm time/date yet is that I don’t know when I’ll have access to the thumper machine as I am still waiting for this, but at the same time, I want to be able to start this process as soon as possible. Thanks for your understanding.

Again, let me know of any questions or problems that arise.

As usual, you can check out the updated POST functionality at HTTP POST and such.

The new additions from the last two days are these:

1) Update Table row through POST
Update a row that you have write access to.
2) View list of users with permissions for a project
You must have build access to use this command, but not necessarily be the owner.
3) View list of users with permissions for a table
Same requirements as 2)

So, those are the updates for this week, test them out, and let me know if you have problems with them. I tried them all out quite a bit and fixed initial problems, but I’m sure you might be able to find more.

Things to look for in the coming weeks include:
Improving stability and performance of Sensorbase
Implementing advanced sensorbase queries such as table joins.
Adding an Alerting Mechanism to Sensorbase for quality assurance and other event-based actions

Well, that’s all for now, let me hear some feedback.