On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Scott Anderson wrote:
This health reporting system you describe seems to be a worthwhile project and should shed some light on how this syndication service could be structured and integrated with. I am thinking of leveraging Geronimo's support for JMX to generate the content for these feeds. Let me know if you know of a more appropriate mechanism to do this type of system introspection.
I'd just say try to get this working in Geronimo as a GBean serving dummy data, and then I'll help you get a hook directly into the Geronimo kernel. From the kernel you can access everything without having to code against ugly JMX apis. Also JMX is an optional add-on for Geronimo so it is best not to tie yourself to it.
I can see some simple workflow functionality being gradually introduced into a system like this. Say the JMX health state or statistics indicated some action was required. In this case the feed content could include a link into the relevant part of the JMX console UI where some suggested actions can be presented for user execution.
We could hook this into the yet-to-materialize management console.
Also, since images can be presented in the contents of RSS/Atom feeds there is an opportunity to present the state of the server and its services using charts and graphs!
This is going to be very cool! -dain
