http://vijayrc.com/vectorclocks/vrc/post/supportguy Presenting SupportGuy, a toolkit that packages the regular grunt work of supporting applications in multiple environments. This tool is more like a supplement to the Terminal with certain features that meets the requirements of regular support duty, namely

###Tech stack:

• Simple Framework,a Java based HTTP engine
• JCraft, JSch and JZlib for packet compression support to pure Java SSH systems
• Velocity, for UI templating
• JQuery, for UI javascript
• Bootstrap for UI Styling
• YAML for configuration
• Jlamda and Lombok for boilerplate reduction
• Spring for injection

###Features:

• Logs: download, search, tail and error grouping
• Links: availability of urls plus ability to post if required
• Db: sqls to run against databases to monitor state
• Configuration: to pull configuration files and match them against stored/tracked versions in scm

The above listed are nothing new or technically cool but every application babysitter including myself, uses/builds a bunch of tools/scripts. To avoid building tools that serve same purpose, I built this SupportGuy,a mashup of select features from Terminal,FTP client, FileDiff, WGET/CURL. Everything is configurable via YAML like

• machines.yml: label, IP, SSH details, log folders, config folders of remote servers
• logs.yml: regex patterns for identifying thread and timestamp
• scms.yml: stored versions of configuration files in local machine
• links.yml: URLS to hit, both GET/POST
• databases.yml: jdbc urls and access credentials
• sqls.yml: queries to run against configured database servers

###Snaps