Compile OpenThread for a [ Host / 802.15.4 Controller ] arrangement - openthread

On the official OpenThread / Platforms site it lists basically 3 way to use the OT stack.
(https://openthread.io/platforms/)
The first runs on a single device, the second communicates with the OT stack via Spinel and the third option splits the OT stack somewhat in the middle. (https://openthread.io/platforms/#host--802154-controller)
I have been looking for a way to build the third option, but i haven't found one. The configure script allows me to choose the following:
--enable-[cli, ncp]-app=[no, mtd, ftd]
That covers the first two options mentioned, but not the Host / Controller arrangement.
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Do i need to write it myself? (That would not be a problem, but i do not want to write it again)
If i am missing some obvious configure options would you kindly point me to them?

There are ongoing efforts in the OpenThread project to support the Host / Controller configuration.
Supporting a radio-only NCP mode using the existing platform APIs: https://github.com/openthread/openthread/pull/2085
Developing a platform abstraction for 802.15.4 MLME-SAP and MCPS-SAP.

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Publishing of multiple Angular apps to Cloudflare workers with wrangler

I'm new to CF workers and the wrangler publish system, and I can find very little information around my requirements within online sources, perhaps my search query is wrong, so hoping I can find some help here.
I have an NX workspace, containing 2x apps. One app is deployed into the top-level worker, and the second one should be deployed to a sub-directory in the same worker, effectively create a parent-child structure, like the following:
example.com/ -> top-level app
example.com/site2/ -> child-level app
My issue is, I do not understand where and how to define, in wrangler.toml, the /sub-directory/. Should I have 2x separate worker-sites for these? I was under the impression that, I could just update the worker (index.js) file in my single worker-site to handle /site2/ otherwise treat the request as standard?
All I would really like to know is, how can I specify that my publish should to the /site2/ sub-directory, if at all possible?
Thanks in advance.
There are a couple ways to handle this. If your code / logic in the workers for the top-level vs child-level is completely different, I'd recommend using two separate workers. Then you can configure which "routes" each worker will run on -
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/cli-wrangler/configuration
Worker 1 could be -
routes = ["example.com/"]
Worker 2 could be -
routes = ["example.com/site2/"]
Check this out for more details on how routing / matching behaves -
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/routes#matching-behavior
The other way to do it would be to have a single worker, and inspect the incoming request to behave differently depending on whether the request is at the root, or at /site2/. I'd only recommend this if there are small differences between how the two sites should behave (e.g. swapping out a variable).

Integrating System Center Operation Manager [SCOM] with external monitoring tool [Application]

WHAT AM I TRYING TO ACHIEVE
Synopsis:
Trying to create an API or connector for an inhouse monitoring tool that integrates with SCOM [System Center/Microsoft System Operations Manager 2012].
Our tool has a restful page with all the necessary endpoints and simply would like SCOM to read the status of those endpoints.
Thus far according to SCOM documentation and my understanding, I need to build a management pack. And this consists of Authoring tools with visual studio etc.
Whilst I am still going through the documentation on this, whose tackled something like this before. Some guidance on how to approach this would be appreciated.
##### UPDATE [04/01/16] ########
Thinking.... * Plan to create a MP(s) for Discovery, Monitoring and Dashboard.*
New Question...
Created a script using posh that exposes the endpoints needed by SCOM.
+ These need to be converted to a class object (converting posh to xml). - not done yet!
+ Thinking ahead I am not sure what Base Class to use for this discovery script?
A very simple way to do this would be with Web Application Availability Monitoring, which works with any HTTP endpoint. As well as checking availability, this monitor can check the content of the response and raise an alert accordingly.
To get started, use the SCOM console and navigate to Authoring > Management Pack Templates > Create > Web Application Availability Monitoring
This blog is a really good walkthrough of doing that:
http://www.opsmanfan.com/index.php/6-use-scom-2012-to-monitor-a-webapi-without-using-scripts
Some limitations with this approach vs. a custom management pack:
you won't get any control over the alert content (name, desciption etc)
it won't scale well to many monitors (in terms of administrative burden)
you can't represent the health using a complex object model (no classes / discoveries)
If you want to test a large number of URLs with this method, then a community Management Pack called URLGenie might also help:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tysonpaul/archive/2015/05/04/urlgenie-management-pack-for-scom-an-easy-solution-for-bulk-website-monitoring.aspx
You are right that custom MP is the right way to do an integration of the custom/third-party monitoring system with SCOM. You have to think about three important things when you are planning your work on such MP:
How you are going to get information from external system
How you are going to persist and use it in SCOM
How you are going to visualize it in SCOM
Let's walk through these three items:
From your intro it looks obvious - your system exposes RESTful API. SCOM (even 2012 or 2016) doesn't have native datasources to parse JSON so you'll need to create custom datasources using Powershell or C# (depends on your experience) . In this case, it might be reasonable to use any standard library to make this job easier.
SCOM has its special object model. You have classes to represent objects, monitors to detect failures/state changes and rules to collect performance metrics and alerts/events. So you'll need to implement Discovery datasources to get data about objects, monitored by your custom monitoring system (such as servers, databases, disks, apps, etc.) and define a class hierarchy to persist these objects in SCOM.
Then you'll need to create datasources for monitors and rules and here you must think before act - what failures, alerts and metrics you want to expose to SCOM. When you have clear understanding of this area - you are good to implement that (again - using PS or C#).
SCOM will give you some OOB visualization after you dome (1) and (2), so in the minimal scenario you'll need to define just a couple of views to show in SCOM console data collected by your MP. In ultimate case - if you want to have some fancy visualization - you'll have to create custom Dashboard. A good option here - use dashboards from SQL Server MP (it was released recently, it's free and it is really cool).
In fact, SCOM is not a monitoring system, but a framework, which has runtime platform, development language, and libraries, so building your own MP is closer to programming than IT administration :)
You also can try to use Silect MP authoring tool, but I'm not sure if it will help you to build custom datasources better than VS.
Good luck!
P.S. feel free to ping me via LinkedIn for more details about MP development.

Support for multiple environments in your windows store app

I have been working on a Windows Store app where I have to support multiple configuration parameters for my app. One of the parameters is the URL the app is talking to.
For example development environment, test, acceptance and finally production.
One of the things i'm currently thinking about is what is the most efficient way of supporting all these environments with the least effort. Because there isn't some kind of config file that we can change to update these parameters I came up with some ideas. I'm curious about other options that I might have not seen.
Here are the things I came up with:
1
Adding multiple configuration to the app and than using them in code to get the correct parameter like this:
private string webserviceUrl;
#if DEV
webserviceUrl = "devUrl";
#elif TEST
webserviceUrl = "testUrl";
#endif
2
With the approach in number 1 there are a few more options available like including a config xml file bases on the configuration, or fetching configuration settings from a webservice the first time the app is running.
3
Using a branch/merge strategy and update the config files in the branch. Advantage is that the code is clean and only contains the settings it needs for the build it's created for. And the package can be build by the build server. Disadvantage is that you need to branch/merge alot.
The last option feels like the most 'clean' solution to do this. Am I missing any options, or do you have experience with any of these methods? What would you prefer?
I think the assumption is that apps in the store will always point to production.
But, in saying that, I'm facing the same issue as we're side loading the application onto devices that we control, and not using the Windows Store at all.
To answer your question, I prefer option 1.
Option 2 and the xml/json config file seems like the best option though.
The webservice option probably won't work. What webservice URL do you use? And how will it work if you want some instances pointing to different environments as they will all be fetching the config from the same URL.
Another option you might want to consider would be options in the settings charm menu. For example, use radio buttons for the environments, and allow the user to configure which environment they want to target.
The issue would be locking it down in production for end users so that it isn't modifiable any more. Perhaps once "PROD" radio is selected, all the radio buttons are then hidden.
If you're deploying the application through side loading, then these settings could probably be configured during the install process.
I'd be interested to hear other opinions as well. This is also an old question, so I'd like to know what solution you decided on implementing.

Is there any private api to monitor network traffic on iPhone?

I need to implement an app that monitors inbound/outbound connections by different apps on iPhone. my app is going to run in background using apple's background multitasking feature for voip and navigators.
I can use private api as my client doesn't need this app on appstore.
Thanks.
I got through this.
I didn't need any private Api to get information of inbound/outbound active connections.
Its just you need to know basic C programming and some patience.
I wrote to apple dev forums regarding this,and got response as-
From my perspective most of what I have to say about this issue is covered in the post referenced below.
<https://devforums.apple.com/message/748272#748272>>
The way to make progress on this is to:
o grab the relevant headers from the Mac OS X SDK
o look at the Darwin source for netstat to see how the pieces fit together
WARNING: There are serious compatibility risks associated with shipping an app that uses this technique; it's fine to use this for debugging and so on, but I recommend against shipping code like this to end users.
What I did step by step is -
1)downloaded code of netstat from BSD opensource -
2)add this to your new iphone project.
3)see,some header files are not present in ios sdk so you need take it copied from opensource.apple.com and add those in your iphone sdk at relevant path under-
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS6.0.sdk/usr/include
My xcode version is 4.5.2. so this is path relevent to my xcode. you can have different path according to versions of xcodes.Anyway. and remember to add those headers in both iosSdk & iOSSimulatorSdk both so that code will work on device as well as on simulator.
4)you may find some minor errors in netstat code relating not finding definitions of some structures in header files.e.g " struct xunpcb64 " .dont wory. definitions are present there.you need to comment some "#if !TARGET_OS_EMBEDDED" #else in those header files so that ios sdk can reach in those if condition and access the definition.(need some try and error.be patient.)
5)finally you will be abe to compile your code.Cheers!!
In case you haven't seen this already, I have used it successfully on my iPhone.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ipad/#qa/qa1176/_index.html
I realize it is not exactly what you want.
Generally, I agree with Suneet. All you need is network sniffer.
You can try to do partial port of WireShark (it's open source and it works on MacOS) to iOS. Both iOS and OS X share most part of the kernel, so if it's not explicitly prohibited on iOS, it should work for you.
WireShark is quite big product, so you may be intersted to look for another open source network sniffer which work on OS X.

Mac OS X: Getting detailed process information (specifically its launch arguments) for arbitrary running applications using its PID

I am trying to detect when particular applications are launched.
Currently I am using NSWorkspace, registering for the "did launch application" notification. I also use the runningApplications method to get apps that are currently running when my app starts.
For most apps, the name of the app bundle is enough. I have a plist of "known apps" that I cross check with the name of that passed in the notification.
This works fine until you come across an app that acts as a proxy for launching another application using command line arguments.
Example: The newly released Portal on the Mac doesn't have a dedicated app bundle. Steam can create a shortcut, which serves as nothing more than to launch the hl2_osx app with the -game argument and portal as it's parameter.
Since more Source based games are heading to the Mac, I imagine they'll use the same method to launch, effectively running the hl2_osx app with the -game argument.
Is there a nice way to get a list of the arguments (and their parameters) using a Cocoa API?
NSProcessInfo comes close, offering an `-arguments' method, but only provides information for its own process...
NSRunningApplication offers the ability to get information about arbitrary apps using a PID, but no command line args...
Is there anything that fills the gap between the two?
I'm trying not to go down the route of spawning an NSTask to run ps -p [pid] and parsing the output... I'd prefer something more high level.
You could use whatever ps uses, though it isn't cocoa based. According to Singh, ps is based on kvm and sysctl calls. Pouring over the source, the pertinant calls seem to be kvm_openfiles, kvm_getprocs and kvm_getargv. To get the command line arguments, first call kvm_openfiles to get access to the kernel memory space, then use kvm_getprocs to get kernel process info, then kvm_getargv.
The use of sysctl in ps seems less relevant to your goal; it's used to get other information, such as the group ID and parent proces ID. The particular sysctl name used is {CTL_KERN, KERN_PROC, KERN_PROC_which, flags}, where which specifies a process filter (e.g. ALL, PID) and flags are arguments for the filter (the details are in the sysctl man page).
OS X doesn't have support procfs, but Singh developed a FUSE based version, released under GPLv2. If you bundle it with your application, you'll have to release it under GPLv2 as well. Most of MacFUSE is released under a BSD-style license, so it can be distributed with your app without making it open source (fusefs/fuse_nodehash.c is released under Apple's open source license, but it also allows linking to closed source apps).
The question "Get other process' argv in OS X using C" should be of use, as it has sample code using kvm and sysctl. TN 2050 "Observing Process Lifetimes Without Polling" may also be of use to you.
Nope - running ps is your best bet. Standard process info interfaces aren't supported on OS X (noop versions were provided in OS X 10.4, but removed thereafter) and the private interfaces are likely to change between OS X revisions.
If you're willing to lock yourself into a single OS X version, all the source is available, for example for ps or libproc; you'll also need to run as root.