{bb} Computing Wellness Factor ?

[John Foley <john.foley@motorola.com>]

Philip, et al,

I've recently been thinking of using BB to create an
overall "Computing Wellness Factor", which would be a
single number that represents what BB takes several
pages and some interpretation to convey. Now, I
know this is somewhat simplistic, but I have my
reasons....

Anyway, my reason in posting was to ask if you know
if anyone has done (or tried to do) something like
this in the past ? If so, I'd be interested in
comparing my ideas on how this would work with
theirs. If not, I'll most likely push forward and
try a few things, since I don't think it would be
a big deal to implement.

If anyone has thoughts on this, please let me know !
(including maybe a better name for it !)

   Thanks,

     John

PS - after re-reading my post, I realize I may need to
include a bit more information on what I really mean,
so in a nutshell, here it is - today, BB provides
an overall 3-level status of the entire system it
is monitoring: red, yellow, or green. I propose adding
a more granular overall indication (ie, a number from
0 to 100) that shows the status of the "stuff" being
monitored, in order to give a better indication of how
bad (or good) things are at a given time. In other
words, instead of saying "currently BB shows our overall
status as yellow", I would be able to say "currently BB
shows our overall status as 82". Of course, the yellow
or red (or green) indication would still be there, too -
this would just be an additional piece of information.

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