Hi everybody! Long time no see!
I'm working down in Maryland these days, having quite an interesting time
of late. I run the corporate networks... WAN, LAN, SAN, etc. We've recently
picked up an IBM product called the XIV (2812-214). Its a disk array which
is essentially a rack with a few UPSs and 6-15 linux boxes with hard drives
in the front, fiberchannel/iscsi in the back, infiniband in between, and
loads of custom software to make it all tick.
I've been using Cacti forever, and so I've gone and contracted with one of
the Cacti developers to make a plugin to help us keep track of the disk
pools, performance stats... a good investment since we like to
overprovision storage. I want to take this code and release it back into
the cacti/open source community.
Here's the rub:
$BOSS wants to make sure that we're not violating any IBM licenses etc.
I've reviewed the NDA and International Program License Agreement (to my
knowledge the only relevant documents) to ensure that this is kosher, and
see no problems... IANAL.
We're not talking about repackaging any IBM-authored code here! This code
uses IBM software ("xcli" which we are not repackaging) to connect to the
disk array, make a few requests, then parse the output.
The question:
Does anyone in this IBM-heavy community filled with LTC engineers know what
I should do to ensure we're not knocking anything over? Has anyone done
something similar before?
Thanks!
-porkchop
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