Advanced Issue Detection (AID).
Developed as a solution to monitor systems and software for faults and errors.
Runs as a 3-tiered system, with the 3 components being:
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aid-agent.py - the agent running on every host that needs checking. Comes with a number of plugins out of the box to check system services and logs on both Linux and Windows. Checks are defined in a config file. Runs as a python webserver on port 8666, and will execute the checks when a GET request to the correct URI is performed by a controller. It will then return the results of the checks in JSON.
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aid-controller.py - intended to manage 'zones' in an environment, i.e. is not firewall or proxy aware (this is the masters job). Has a config file that defines all host in a zone that have an agent, and will make requests to the agent for the status of various checks at a default or defined frequency. Multi-threaded, spawning 1 thread per host in the environment. Results of the checks will be stored in a number of status files on disk. The controller is also a python web server, running on port 8866, that can receive requests from a specific URI from the master, then return the bundled results of all hosts in a zone.
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aid-master.py - collects results from all controllers. Can be configured with proxy awareness and can retrieve results from hostnames or IP addresses. Parses the JSON results from each controller and updates the DB, in which there is a Hosts table and a Services table, each with an indication of status (UP / DOWN). All communication between the master and the controller is compressed, then encrypted.