[db-wg] cmd line asused and webasused
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Nina Hjorth Bargisen
nihb at wheel.dk
Tue Jan 17 20:43:39 CET 2012
Nigel Thank you - a stand alone tool is much preferred over API. I look forward to get my scripts working again Rgds Nina On 17.01.2012 16:58:03 +0000, Nigel Titley wrote: > On 17/01/2012 16:21, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Problem is, we don't yet have a replacement command-line tool for dealing > > with quick-n-easy LIR resource usage summarisation. This has meant that > > the people who depended on this tool were left hanging for the last 8 > > years, because the code slowly rotted as interfaces subtly changed over > > time. This is not a criticism of changing the DB interface or anything, > > btw - progress needs to happen. > > > > In terms of being platform specific, it was limited to any platform which > > could run perl - perhaps with minor modifications. There are lots of > > complaints that people make about perl, (some legitimate) but platform > > portability is not one of them. > > > > OTOH, webasused can be very slow. E.g. I submitted a request for a LIR at > > 15:28 GMT today, and got a reply at 15:39. This makes it unusable for a > > typical workflow process (e.g. run asused, check output against internal > > records, submit a couple of updates, run asused again, check again, repeat > > until satisfied). > > > > The web version is also unauthenticated which means that it's open to third > > parties submitting requests for arbitrary LIRs. And it doesn't support > > ipv6, which means that it's still difficult to do resource reconciliation > > for v6 assignments. > > > > I'll admit that not everyone likes command line tools, but for those of us > > who continue to us asused, it's a real pity that it wasn't maintained and > > further developed to support ipv6. > > > > Nick, Alex et al > > At the Board meeting on the 8th December the board gave Axel an action > "to reinstate/redevelop the stand-alone version of the RIPE NCC ASused tool" > > I doubt that this action would be satisfied merely by the provision of > an API into the webasused tool. > > Alex, you may like to check this with Axel. It is possible that it was > misunderstood by him, but it is very clearly minuted. > > And I'd agree with Nick that lack of platform portability is one of the > few brickbats that cannot be aimed atperl. > > Nigel >
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