Design Issue

Greetings,

I am working on a remote desktop management system.

One of the feature in this product is remote configuration, i.e i must be able to create a new process, delete a process etc on remote machine.

And it must be:
Single host single operation(SHSO)
Single host multiple operation(SHMO)
multiple host single operation(MHSO)
multiple host multiple operations.(MHMO)

Here first one is straight forward and i achieved it.

Problem is in MHSO

Example: If i have 3 hosts and 10 tasks in each host. In which 5 tasks are common in all the 3 hosts.
Now if a give a delete task operation on all hosts.

Should i do the intersection of all the processes(So i will get only 5 tasks to end or kill because only 5 tasks are in common)

Or should i go for union of all tasks and i will get 20 tasks(5x3 + 5 tasks). So out of 20 if a task is there in only one host my application will skip performing the operation on rest of the two hosts.

So i am confused which to implement.(Union of task or Intersection of tasks?)

Please give the inputs.....(Please think from a network administrators perspective). This is a design issue, so all programing language people can participate and pour ideas.

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi

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20 Views. No one replied.?

Sad...... :(

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi

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I would suggest (if I understannd the question correctly) that you provide a facility for doing all that you can. Delete Host would delete the host and all tasks within the host. Delete Task by ID would delete an individual task. Delete Task by name would delete tasks from any host that matched the name specified (or selected). Does that make sense?

PS. Generally we don't encourage bumps to a thread before at least 24 hours has passed. It's seen as impatient. If you have also posted in the wrong forum then a little extra patience is required.

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Thanks for the reply...... Anyways we came up with a solution for that problem and started implementation.

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi

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I'm pleased to hear it Dheeraj, but it would be nice to let us know in future if you find a solution, before anybody spends time working on your behalf.

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Let me have a working base of our solution, then i can post solution for this kind of problem.

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi

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I'm not sure I understand you. Do you need something from me? I thought you had managed to find a solution elsewhere (from your previous post).

Whatever the truth of the matter, that is certainly a good attitude :)

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Hi NeoPa,

Our team managed to find 2 solution for this problem, and we are trying to come up with a prototype for both of them....

Let me see which idea is better than the other(Execution time,resource usage etc etc)....

In case of any questions i will post back....
Hope you people help me :)

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi

Note:2 Solution were got after a brainstorming sessions....

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The prototypes are complete and we got everything working....

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi