Architecture

Resume

This Python module is a desktop application, with a system tray icon, for Alignak solution.

Application notify you when you have changes in your monitoring. You can trigger actions inside application, see status of monitored items, problems to solved and many other things.

Architecture

Alignak-app works as follows:

• The BackendClient manage requests with Alignak backend.
• The ThreadManager will launch BackendQThread(s) to trigger requests in BackendClient.
• The DataManager will store data provided by BackendClient in Items.
• The QObjects package display/update the data stored in DataManager.
• The Utils package contains settings, logs, installation,…
• The Locales package contains translations.
• The Login package manage user login if needed.

Alignak-app will use a system of Installer who use environment variables to run:

• ALIGNAKAPP_USR_DIR: contains settings of user (write rights)
• ALIGNAKAPP_LOG_DIR: contains log files of App (write rights)
• ALIGNAKAPP_APP_DIR: contains binaries of App (images, css, languages) (read rights)