Screen Snapshot Service

h1. Screen Snapshot Service

h2. Sample Installations

* [[CMSWBM:http://cmswbm.web.cern.ch/cmswbm/snapshot/ShowImageList.jsp]] (password protected)

* 

* CMS Centre    internal links

    LHC@FNAL Remote Operations Center     internal links

    CDF Experiment     internal links

    CMSWBM - CMSWBM2 (password protected)

    NOvA DAQ (password protected) 

Introduction

The screen snapshot service is logically composed of three parts:

    Producers that periodically capture snapshots of a specified computer desktop and send the snapshots to a server.

    A server that receives the snapshots from the producers, converts them to image files in an easily accessible format, and serves them to consumers.

    Consumers that periodically fetch updated images from the server and display them to a user. 

In the initial version of the system, these pieces have the following implementations:

    The producer is a Java application that runs on the host that has the display(s) that are interesting to remote users. It is deployed with Java Web Start.

    The server is a web application that runs inside the Tomcat Java application server.

    The consumer is a combination of JSP pages and Javascript that are accessed with a web browser. 

Downloads

    V1.5 build 19 - 10-Oct-2014

        Built with Java version 1.7.0_67 

    V1.5 build 18 - 19-Sep-2014

        Built with Java version 1.7.0_21 

    V1.5 build 14 - 19-Sep-2011

        Built with Java version 1.6.0_14 - NOTE that the JVM that is used by Tomcat, and the JVMs that are used by Java Web Start on *all* of the producers, must be v1.6.0_14 or later for this version to work.

        Moved the ServerDiag.jsp page into the internal subdirectory. 

    V1.5 build 13 - 01-Sep-2011

        Built with Java version 1.6.0_14 - NOTE that the JVM that is used by Tomcat, and the JVMs that are used by Java Web Start on *all* of the producers, must be v1.6.0_14 or later for this version to work.

        Added shorter intervals for producing snapshots; added a user-specified timeout before images on disk are cleaned up; added functionality to persist the choice of fit-to-screen as one navigates between pages; modified the filenames of the images stored on disk so that they can be traced back to the producer display. 

Instructions

As mentioned above, the snapshot server runs inside of Tomcat, and the snapshot producer runs using Java Web Start. As such, installation of the snapshot service really boils down to installing Tomcat on your server PC and enabling Java Web Start on your producer hosts. The following links provide some instructions for installing S3, but they don't go into details of Tomcat or Java installation.

    Installation Instructions (Linux)

    Tips for JWS on Windows 

Slides

    Introductory talk presented at the 08-May-2007 LAFS meeting: ppt pdf

    Diagram prepared for Alan's RT07 poster: ppt pdf

    Introductory talk presented at the 23-Jan-2007 SiTracker meeting: ppt pdf 

Kurt Biery

Last modified: Mon Jun 30 12:40:18 CDT 2008

List of available images on nippon.fnal.gov     internal links