--- here is the excerpt from original readme from 2003:
Melchior 1.00 beta 6 Server Monitoring Tool
Melchior was coded for my personal use to quickly see what services are up/down on various servers in our corporate network. It serves as an overall accessibility status reporter for local servers. It works on any server though. So you can check if your favorite web server is up or down.
Yes several features (like explore network) are disabled since they do not work properly yet. The software is still very much beta though it's been tested a lot by myself.
There will be status histograms, several down alert methods, logging and network explore features in planned final version. (If I ever have time)
--- now back to 2009:
Apparently I didn't have time :)
Due to popular demand, I decided to release the source code to public. As a disclaimer, I must state that I'm really unhappy with this code. I think it's badly designed and coded. For instance, the code is unnecessarily CPU intensive and multithreaded operations are not very reliable despite the use of locked lists. I don't like the object hierarchy in service implementations either. Lack of comments makes it hard to read it. The compiled version crashed on Windows 7 and I'm not sure if it's just a one off thing or a problem with my code.
I don't have a running Delphi available for my use so I'm not sure if it'll even compile.
As I said, Melchior isn't perfect code. I hesitated to release it because I didn't want to provide false directions to new beginners. But later I thought it also had a lot of useful stuff as well. I believe releasing this in its current shape is much better than not doing it at all. At least, it could be a good example for "how not to write a network monitor" :)
Anyway, this is public domain now. Do whatever you want with it.
Sedat "ssg" Kapanoglu [email protected]