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Updated Feb 5, 2008 by Moeh...@gmail.com

What does Kinti mean?

Kinti: Kinti Is Network Testing Infrastructure. Kinti is a flexible framework for testing network services.

Why test network services or servers?

System administrators who work with lots of servers or network services generally have no time to manually check the availability of their servers. Imagine hundreds of servers and only a few system administrators to see the need for an automated solution for monitoring servers and network services. Imagine that one of the hundreds of servers is down due to a technical problem and that the system administrator would automatically be notified of such a failure, allowing him/her to respond quickly and solve the issue.

Why does need the world need Kinti?

There are a number of applications that allow you to test the availability of servers and/or network services. However, these are either not flexible enough, hard to maintain or not scalable. Kinti is designed to offer you a flexible, scalable, easily configurable and high performance solution.

What is Kinti?

Kinti allows the end-user to specify which services he/she wants to monitor on one side, and what he/she wants to do with the results on the other side. Kinti is meant to provide you with the underlying framework. Kinti will periodically perform the user-defined checks, and submits the results to subscribed processes. Kinti is the mediator between the the user-defined checks on one side and the user-defined processes on the other side which will act upon the results generated by Kinti.

One example of a used-defined check is one that will check whether the FTP-server is still online. An example of a used-defined process is one that subscribed itself to the results of FTP- and HTTP-checks and generates a statuspage.

Comment by project member Moeh...@gmail.com, Feb 6, 2008

Before this page is final, we need to check a few things: - How is the English spelling/grammer ? Ricardo, Michelle ? - Do we need to add things to this page? Isn't it quite short? Does this page describe the whole project (well enough) ?

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