Hi all, > I'm not sure that one tool able to provide all requested features will > really simplify things. A such tool will have to support a billion of > various command line options and parameters. Wouldn't it be easier to > have separate tools for controlling resources and configurations? I > mean one tool that will be able to > start/stop/move/unmove/manage/unmage/etc... resources and another tool > for adding and removing them in CIB? Kind of hat we have now with > cibadmin & crm_resource but with simpler and more intuitive syntax, > especially for cibadmin. Per my experience XML itself is the main part > that drives people crazy and hiding it out as much as it possible will > be the best achievement for a such tool. > > There is a main set of function that is used most often: start a > resource, stop it, move it. Syntax for such things has to be easy to > type and easy to remember. Current tools don't provide it and that's > why almost everybody has his own homegrown script for those > operations. A remember at least 2 or 3 published on this list. > For those of you that know Novell Cluster Services, in that product there is just one CLI tool with the name "cluster". It's a very intuitive tool, you can almost guess how to use it. Would be cool if we can have something like that in Heartbeat. (Take a look here: http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes2/clus_admin_lx/index.html?page=/documentation/oes2/clus_admin_lx/data/ncsclusresources.html for some examples of this tool.
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