Wild-eyed thinking aloud: Python System Management Infrastructure

[William Annis]

ngps at madcap.dyndns.org (Ng Pheng Siong) writes:

> >         I'd rather not do this alone. 
> 
> Don't do it. Yet.
> 
> This problem has been around long before the first Internet gold rush -
> many skilled people have attacked it. Find something you can get going,
> e.g., cfengine, Big Brother, even the old venerable Nocol.

        Eek!  Not Big Brother!  I have my own monitoring system.  It
has never yet offered my local filesystem to the outside world. :)

        As I've said elsewhere, I *know* about these tools, and I even
use some of them.  My irritation is that none of them seem capable of
sharing information in any useful way without a lot of work.

> Join Usenix and SAGE. Check out the material of Usenix's sysadmin
> conferences from years past. Behold the diversity. It doesn't have to be
> Python.

        I am in both.  In fact, I'm on the program committee for this
year's LISA conference.  I'm well aware of the diversity available.
I've read a lot of older papers on the subject, too, each of which
attacks individual *parts* of the problem.  I've also seen how the
same sorts of tools keep getting reinvented over and over again, which
is part of my reason for posting here.  I'd rather not reinvent the
wheel for that sake of doing so, but I will happily do so to not to
have to pay for Tivoli. :)

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