"Wilson, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In what sense do you mean "manage?" Do you mean monitoring resources? >and in what aspect, from VM or from Linux?
<pedantic> I think Eric hit the nail on the head here with his question. "Monitoring" is a very poorly defined term in this business (IOW, it means different things to different people, or to the same people in different contexts): - Operational monitoring (is system XYZ up and happy?) - Operational analysis (is system XYZ going to stay happy, or is it going to fall over Real Soon Now because the hamster is running out of chew bars?) - Performance analysis (is system XYZ on its knees because it's just too small?) - Capacity planning (is system XYZ going to be on its knees soon at the rate things are going?) - Program monitoring (is system XYZ being monopolized by process 123?) Obviously these touch and overlap in places, but it's conceivable to have separate products for each or to have one product that does all of them. One might assume that the product that does all of them would be both more expensive and harder to use (more complex), so "Of course we want all of them" isn't always the right answer. Things like Big Brother do the first thing; Barton's tools do an excellent job of performance analysis and capacity planning, with some program monitoring. top and sar do some of this too, albeit with useless results in some areas (most of top's output, for example -- not sure about sar). So it's probably important to know which thing(s) you really mean, and what it is you're trying to achieve or what problem(s) you're trying to solve, in order for the question to be answered most meaningfully. </pedantic> As for Levanta, it gives you some operational monitoring -- it can tell you whether an instance is running or not, and collects some minor system and user statistics (mostly SPOOL usage). It's not intended as a monitoring tool, so that's as deep as it goes currently. As Marcy indicated, Levanta is more focused on deployment, provisioning, and managing the system software stack itself. Hope this helps, ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
