Personally, I'm not sold on the ability to integrate with an external
tool that will give us adequate functionality as compared to what we
presently have with the monitor (someone prove me wrong). It doesn't
*have* to be pretty -- the monitor is extremely functional already which
is the important part.
A deployable war would be a big step up, as administrators could deploy
the monitor into existing application servers instead of the
embedded-jetty hack we currently use.
Moving towards a monitor REST API (instead of baked into servlets) would
also be a big step for external systems to consume Accumulo information
and also allow for better testing.
Regarding the shell in the monitor, I think it's been there since
1.5.0ish -- you just need to enable the monitor to run with SSL. There's
a generate_monitor_certificate.sh script in bin that will generate the
keystore and truststore for you, and also print out the configuration to
add to accumulo-site.xml.
On 5/12/14, 10:24 AM, Mike Drob wrote:
Al,
There's an existing JIRA for packaging the monitor as a war -
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1325 - so that is a good
place to start.
There's also been some discussion about going the other way - instead of
building up the monitor we could tear it down and let somebody else
maintain that code. The benefits are a reduced maintenance cost for us,
especially on something that is not our forte. As a community we know how
to make a good distributed storage system... less so on how to make a
pretty web interface. You can check out
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1013 for more details there.
Mike
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Al Krinker <[email protected]> wrote:
All,
Christopher and I exchanged some ideas during Accumulo Meetup last week
about how we can improve Accumulo Monitoring Page... I would like to reach
out to the community to flesh out some prototype ideas and to make sure we
are not duplication any ongoing efforts that may take place.
How do you feel about making Accumulo Monitoring Page a deployable war
file? Also, we probably should clean up the current site some more (I
noticed that some of the titles are not well alligned). In addition, I am
thinking about adding Spring Security to control the access to certain
pages.
Another idea, would be to provide shell capabilities via web page... For
example, a user will be able to select a table from drop down of all
available tables, and then then do a simple scan to see the data.
Neither Christopher or I use Cloudera, so we are not too familiar with it
or its features... and I've heard that Cloudera Manager might already
provide some of these features? Anyone can confirm it? Even if it is true,
I would still want to add as much capabilities to Accumulo without having
to use another tool.
Also, Christopher mentioned that Billie Rinaldi (Hortonworks) did add some
shell interface to the
web page. So hopefully, Billie will be able to pitch in with his ideas.
Thoughts? Comments?
Thanks,
Al Krinker
