On 06/22/2010 01:20 AM, Jason Williams wrote:
Miroslav Suchý wrote:
The question is what benefit will this bring you beyond simple
inventory. You could not monitor it anyway. Well you can do only remote
probes like ping, traceroute etc. but all that you can do with any other
machine record as parameter of nearly all probes are hostname (which if
left empty is set to hostname of that machine).
Not sure if somebody will be willing to write equivalent of rhnmd for
Windows.
I assumed that the only things it could do right out of the gate were
inventory and remote monitoring stuff. Then I realized, if I were to
play around with the WMI Python stuff, and learn a bit about how rhnmd
did it's communications, I might be able to duplicate a few of the Linux
based monitoring metrics. I know it seems like a daunting task, but I
was pretty surprised how easy it was to just get the basic stuff going
in this proof of concept client. So I was thinking it might not be that
hard to get some of that stuff working.
*nod*
rhnmd is just wrapped around sshd.
IIRC sshd exist for Windows, but allow only root to login. But I may be
wrong, it is long time I used it.
But then there is another obstacle that we asume existence of /proc and
basic linux commands.
But one step in time, I'm looking to much in future right now :)
I'll definitely get to polishing it up now that I know it's something
one of the devs thinks is useful. I really only put it together as a "I
wonder if this will work" sort of idea. Then when it did, my buddy
suggested I ping it off you guys. I'll run through your list and fix the
stuff up though. I might even wrap a NSIS installer around it, python,
and PyOpenSSL just for good measure.
OK. I'm not sure we will be willing to host .EXE files for installer if
we could not compile them from scratch. But we can link to your website
for such installer.
--
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering
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