Remote administration of VM(s)

> Hello,
>
> Is there another mean of remote administration than VNC? VNC is nice,
> but if your internet connection is slow or buggy, it becomes hard to
> use. Is there a project about a command line interface (ncurses like)
> for Pharo?
>
> Also, how do you manage a lot of VMs? Is there some sort of monitoring
> and administration interface I can use? (I think that question is
> mostly directed at the seasidehosting.st folks)
> I think I saw an ESUG GSOC idea about that (
> http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas#h-116 ).

> Hello,
>
> Is there another mean of remote administration than VNC? VNC is nice,
> but if your internet connection is slow or buggy, it becomes hard to
> use. Is there a project about a command line interface (ncurses like)
> for Pharo?
>
> Also, how do you manage a lot of VMs? Is there some sort of monitoring
> and administration interface I can use? (I think that question is
> mostly directed at the seasidehosting.st folks)
> I think I saw an ESUG GSOC idea about that (
> http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas#h-116 ).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Geoffroy
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pharo-users mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users

> Hi Geoffroy,
>
> I don't know about public projects, but here is what we do at Cmsbox.
>
> We use HTTP to interact with the images from the command line (we have several hundreds images running on each server, so its a bit more convenient than using VNC ;). It is a combination of bash, curl and Seaside. On the image side we have a simple request handler that calls methods with arguments passed via query strings. From the command line we can do stuff like "cbfor beta-testers disableLogin", which sends the message #disableLogin to all images in the beta-tester group.
>
> To manage the VM processes we use daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html), and again various scripts to automate installation, configuration, version upgrading, etc.
>
> For monitoring we use Nagios, and Munin. Former also uses the HTTP interface to check images for their health.
>
> Maybe the tools Andreas Brotbeck implemented for GLASS may be useful for you: http://andreas.mindclue.ch/blog/Announcing+SeaShell
>

> This is VERY valuable information. It would be cool to have it somewhere. FAQ, website, book, I don't know.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mariano
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Adrian Lienhard <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi Geoffroy,
>
> I don't know about public projects, but here is what we do at Cmsbox.
>
> We use HTTP to interact with the images from the command line (we have several hundreds images running on each server, so its a bit more convenient than using VNC ;). It is a combination of bash, curl and Seaside. On the image side we have a simple request handler that calls methods with arguments passed via query strings. From the command line we can do stuff like "cbfor beta-testers disableLogin", which sends the message #disableLogin to all images in the beta-tester group.
>
> To manage the VM processes we use daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html), and again various scripts to automate installation, configuration, version upgrading, etc.
>
> For monitoring we use Nagios, and Munin. Former also uses the HTTP interface to check images for their health.
>
> Maybe the tools Andreas Brotbeck implemented for GLASS may be useful for you: http://andreas.mindclue.ch/blog/Announcing+SeaShell
>
> HTH,
> Adrian
>
> On May 7, 2010, at 08:01 , Geoffroy Couprie wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there another mean of remote administration than VNC? VNC is nice,
> > but if your internet connection is slow or buggy, it becomes hard to
> > use. Is there a project about a command line interface (ncurses like)
> > for Pharo?
> >
> > Also, how do you manage a lot of VMs? Is there some sort of monitoring
> > and administration interface I can use? (I think that question is
> > mostly directed at the seasidehosting.st folks)
> > I think I saw an ESUG GSOC idea about that (
> > http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas#h-116 ).
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Geoffroy
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Pharo-users mailing list
> > [hidden email]
> > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users
>
>
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