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Re: [Xen-users] any tool to retrieve host info from guest and vice versa

To: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] any tool to retrieve host info from guest and vice versa..?
From: Tim Post <tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:08:26 +0800
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On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 07:55 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Tim Post wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:57 -0200, Christopher G. Stach II wrote:
> >   
> >> Maybe you should turn it into a Nagios plugin. :)
> >>     
> >
> > Why would I want to do that? Its defeating the purpose of using low
> > level C and simple file handles. Again, its stupid to raise loads and
> > eat up contiguous cache to monitor a server, such is the case with snmp
> > and nagios.
> >
> > I suppose its just a matter of personal preference, and fundamental
> > understanding of how Linux uses memory :)
> >   
> Or because Nagios has an existing user base, user confidence, lots of 
> flexibility for plug-ins, and the front ends and interfaces to it are 
> all built up. By the time you get finished building up all those 
> associated features, you'll have spent man-years of programming time and 
> made it much bulkier.
> 
> Now, if you'd care to build a more efficient back-end for it, or improve 
> its error reporting, cool.

For goodness sake, I only offered it to someone who wanted something
simple and an alternative to snmp. 

That will be the *last* time I offer anything on this list :) I'm not
competing with nagios, I don't want to spend time writing a complex
network monitor, all I wanted to do was share something useful as-is. He
didn't want a network monitor, all he wanted was vitals and hardware
info.

The code is there, its free. If you find it useful for something, use
it, else don't .. I really don't care :)






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