Virtual platforms

Greg Hinkle greghinkle at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 16:24:18 UTC 2010


This was discussed a few years ago.

http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design-Agentless+Management

-Greg

On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> we currently have a fixed relations between servers and their platform. A server can basically only
> exist when there is a platform resource in inventory which requires an agent on that box.
> Of course it is possible to open remote connections to other machines, but those other
> machines appear below the actual platform. This is most often no issue, but when you 
> e.g. want to include network elements like routers and switches, this does not work well.
> Same issue arises when one goes through some "proxy" - e.g. a different management
> server that manages some software and then provides that data to RHQ. Also in the
> cloud case of e.g. Infinispan or Hadoop, there is often a cluster manager that provides 
> all the data and putting an agent on each box with an ISPN or Hadoop node is overkill.
> 
> So I propose that we introduce a concept of virtual platforms which also show up
> in the tree as now, but which do not host agents (and are probably limited in the
> data they can provide as without agent, there are not platform plugins and no platform metrics).
> Software that is hosted on such a platform would show up as a normal platform child.
> 
> 
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