Re: [Xen-users] VM Management tools.

[Michael Watters <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
> I also found that the available applications for this are:
>
> a.) too bloated for simple management the hosted Xen guests, like DTC, 
> which is a damn great stuff, really, but I don't need the complete 
> management of the MTAs, viruscheckers, webservers, and so,
> b.) support only a few distros, like RedHat or SuSE, do not run on 
> Debian,
> c.) require a fee.
>
> So I'm currently preparing a very simple central administration app 
> using only PHP and SOAP, large portion of it is based on DTC's stuff. 
> The app will be released under GPL, of course.
> Since my Xen hosting service will start on Monday, my latest deadline 
> to get it into pre-alpha-justworking state is that date. :)
> -w-
I've been working on something similar as well using SSH keys and XML.  
Currently each of my Xen servers runs a cron job every 5 minutes to 
generate an xml stats feed, this file is then processed by a CGI on my 
monitoring system.
See the following links for examples.

http://watters.ws/scripts/xen/report-stats.txt
http://watters.ws/scripts/xen/client.txt



> Julian Pawlowski wrote:
> > > Enomalism : http://www.enomalism.com/
> > >     
> > Seems only to support Red Hat based systems and therefore is not 
> > really easy
> > to install on other distributions (I like SUSE :-)).
> >
> >  
> > > Virt Manager : http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/
> > >     
> > Only for an Linux X11 Workstation...
> >
> > 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.
> > Most administrators work with more than one OS on their server 
> > environment
> > and have Windows on their desktops so a good solution must be aware 
> > of this.
> > Why isn't there anything for the community? :-(
> > Maybe this will change when the new CLI is ready but we need 
> > something now
> > as not every administrator in our team is able to work with xens command
> > line tools (nor should everybody!)
> >
> >
> > Julian
> >
> >
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