On Thursday, October 10, 2013 08:30:42 PM Blair Jacuzzi wrote: > On 10/10/2013 07:54 PM, Sean McCully wrote: > > Hello Cassandra Users, > > > > I've recently created a Cassandra Agent as part of Netflix's Cloud Prize > > competition, the submission which I've named Hector is largely based on > > Netflix's Priam. I would be very interested in getting feedback, from > > anyone willing to give Hector (https://github.com/seanmccully/hector) a > > try. I am very interested in seeing if this is something the Cassandra > > Community is interested in using with their Cassandra installs. > > For one, there's a name conflict with the well known Hector Cassandra > client project: > > http://hector-client.github.io/hector/build/html/index.html
Any suggestions on a new name? > > The project > > > If you've taken a look at it, and tried running it. Does it seem like a > > useful tool? Was the documentation easy enough to follow, was the install > > and configuration process straightforward? What can be done to improve > > upon it. > If I came to the github page, it wouldn't be immediately obvious what > the project is for. > > > If there isn't a lot of interest in using it, or you think its utter crap > > I > > would probably still like to hear why. > > So it provides a REST API to managing a Cassandra instance? > > It looks interesting. > > Have you looked at leveraging ccm's work [1]? ccm is a Python tool > meant to manage Cassandra instances for dev testing, but I would > imagine the could work well together. It has a CCM Lib that one can import. > > [1] https://github.com/pcmanus/ccm Was not aware of this project, thanks for the heads up. Looks like ccm might be a good way for auto-bootstrapping Cassandra nodes. Hector (to be renamed.) currently focuses on monitoring and management of a single node. > > Regards, > Blair -- Sean McCully
