For the record, I was just pointing #918 for the web admin gui part but I totally agree and also think that a centralized management thingy is the way to go.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 12:58 +0200, Sylvain Lebresne wrote: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-918 >> >> Someone seems to be working on the idea. Don't know what's the status >> exactly. > > #918 is to create a centralized, browser-based, management station, > (FWIW, I think this is The Way). > > Earlier versions of Cassandra had an embedded web server on each node > that displayed a few properties, including a non-graphical > representation (a table) of the ring. We removed this webui because as > time wore on, more and more people came around to the idea that it was > better to put the time into JMX instrumentation and leave the job of > monitoring/management to applications and developers better suited to > that. Technically speaking, we removed it after this overall attitude > resulted in lots of excellent work being put into JMX, while the webui > suffered from chronic lack of maintenance. > > A webui has a certain gee-whiz factor, but when running a real cluster > of any size, it's probably the least practical way to go about it IMO. > > -- > Eric Evans > eev...@rackspace.com > >
