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Re: [Xen-users] VM Management tools.

You might want to look at mln also. It does all this, and alot of other
very conveniant management things :)

ingard

Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:21:55PM +0100, Julian Pawlowski wrote:
>
>   
>> What we need is something you install on all nodes and where you have a
>> central administration directly over a web browser or a Windows program like
>> the one from XenEnterprise - but in OpenSource of course.
>>     
>
>   Funny you should say that .. I've been working on this for the 
>  past week or two.
>
>   This is the successor to my previous Argo project, named Argos.
>
>   The intention is that it will run exactly as you describe:
>
>    * Each dom0 runs a small agent.
>
>    * There is a central server which contacts each agent and can
>      instruct them to do things;
>
>         - list running instances
>         - list shutdown instances
>         - list all instances, regardless of running/not-running
>         - start domU
>         - shutdown domU
>
>    The central server also provides an XMLRPC interface that can
>   be used to construct a control panel.  Right now there is a
>   simple (working!) command line shell, but we also have a 
>   Ruby on Rails web-based control panel in development, and
>   there will be GUI application too  (probably Ruby + Tk)
>
>    As a quick example the shell allows you to list remote nodes 
>   and connect to one in particular.  Then you can list the
>   guests and start/stop them.  Here is a capture:
>
>   skx@mine:~/cvs/argos$ ./control/console/console-client.rb
>   skx#> nodelist     <-  List nodes
>       mine
>       yours
>       localhost
>
>   skx#> node mine    <-  Take control of xen host "mine[.my.flat]"
>   skx# [mine]> 
>
>   skx# [mine]> list  <-  list xen guests
>   Running:
>         nfsclient.my.flat
>         builder.my.flat
>         cfmaster.my.flat
>   Not running:
>         steve.my.flat
>
>    skx# [mine]> boot steve.my.flat
>    skx# [mine]> exit
>
>    Neat?  I think so.  Only a few hundred lines of Ruby, although
>  there is still work to do getting the web console working, getting
>  SSL sorted out etc.
>
>   If you're interested in trying it out:
>
>     http://argos.cvsrepository.org/
>
>   Debian packages are almost there, and mailing me off-list should
>  let me help with any problems.
>
>   Once it is actually released for the first time there will be 
>  webpages on http://xen-tools.org/software/argos/
>
>
>   
>> Why isn't there anything for the community? :-(
>>     
>
>   Because everybody wants it for free and isn't prepared to write
>  it themselves - much like Xen ;)
>
> Steve
>   


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