Hi Severn,
Thanks to have taken the time to anwer,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
I'm also not familiar with SPML, but it looks like it is more of a toolkit
to manage users (especially with the "setPassword" and related commands)
which makes it an ideal companion with SAML and not so useful as a generic
controller/agent situation.
According to the specifications and the websites, SPML manage not only
user provisionning but also services (like webservers, databases,
applications...) and accounts requests. I'm aware of at least one
proprietary application (written in Perl, with spml file binding) which
do provisionning of servers (apache, postgres...) in relation with an
accounting application for ISP. My goal regarding Lokahi (or any other
open source java application which fit the following description) is to
be able to deploy new websites for my customers (websites constituted of
Apache/Ofbiz/Tomcat (in cluster)/PostGreSQL, mail accounts and servers,
user accounts, dns records,... ) and to manage their configurations via
a simple web interface, ideally linked to the backoffice of my own website.
Personally, I think the current SOAP approach
fits Lokahi's needs better...
Well, SPML can use SOAP, at least the open source Java implementation at
openspml.org (http://www.openspml.org/ ). It is aimed at managing any
spml requests (user,services, accounts targets with add, cancel, delete,
modify,schema,search,status operations), support XML binding via SOAP
calls, and the API is simple and very extensible (it seems). Also i have
already developed my own schemas to describe the targets/servers and
operations, i guess i can embed them in the spml requests.
I believe that perhaps it's a bit heavy to use SPML for the job of
Lokahi ;-) however it would add a lot in term of extensibility, to
manage other types of servers/services than tomcat and apache alones.
But it's perhaps not the goal/scope of Lokahi...
Anyway thanks for your comment and have a good day,
Best regards,
-Severn
Ludovic Maitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
01/31/2008 02:50 AM
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SPML ?
Hi all,
I'm wondering if you have investigated using SPML (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPML ) in the project ? For instance we
could use it to abstract the dialog between the controller and the
agents ? Or to provide a way to query and control the system from the
outside from other SPML enabled systems ? Perhaps this could provide a
way for the Lokahi controller to manage other systems with an agent
which speak SPML ? And to develop other agents? I'm not experienced
about this markup language but it seems to fit to the functional domain
we want to manage with Lokahi. I have a lot of questions which i hope to
answer in the forthcoming days by carefully reading the specs and xml
schemas, but i would like to know if you have any opinion about it,
Best regards,
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