Sim Monitoring - Is This Even Possible ?

Hi All

Some newbie advice please !!

How feasible is it to write a sim monitor which will monitor "key" performance indicators such as FPS, number of AVs on the sim etc and then actively manage the sim by making changes to the sim management to improve performance such as shutting down scripts, barring people coming onto the sim etc.

This is part of a project I am involved but I'm unsure how much power the scripting language will give me before I get too involved.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Voodoo

You can monitor time dilation (and sim FPS; the two are directly correlated). You cannot change most of the parcel/estate access settings from LSL though (the most you can do is add residents to the (PARCEL) allow and ban lists, which is effective only if they have been manually enabled). This would probably be a good project for a custom client (wither based on libSL or the open-source viewer code). You could have an estate manager bot who does all kinds of nifty and useful things that we only salavate over in LSL.

All of the 'monitoring' side of it seems possible using LSL, but indeed a tight libsecondlife client would be ideal, as sims send clients SimStats regularly, an anonymous count of avatars on a given sim is immediately available without having to rez scanners or anything, and it opens up the 'management' side.

One crucial thing, though, I don't think the estate tools option to disable a script actually works. Am I wrong? I can't get it to work

Though I don't have experience using the estate tools via libsecondlife, except for requesting top scripts, I'd like to know more about what you have in mind.