Punky,
I followed your link and read about project dynamite.
I agree with most of what you have written, and I definitely agree with
you about the importance of this.
You don't mention SNMP for the backend daemon. How come?
Your 'large scale' point is very important. I can easily manage a
couple of Voyage nodes the ways things are. It is when I get into
bigger deployments that I need tools that are not currently available
(as open source).
Kaboodle is an open source, cross platform, network management utility
that has been abandoned.
http://www.kaboodle.org/
I think it would serve as a good starting point. I quite like it's
method of network discovery (using pcap/winpcap). Perhaps the Kaboodle
people could be convinced to make it dual licensed rather then just GPL?
Regarding programming language for the daemon. I would have thought
that writing it (or anything core) in Ruby or PHP would introduce new
dependencies. Whereas C/C++, Python, and shell wouldn't.
Tom.
Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
Hi Jeff,
I have listed out some requirements on the web UI. See Project
Dynamite: http://linux.voyage.hk/?q=project_dynamite
Design philosophy and guidelines:
1. Small. It must be damn small in size as it runs on embedded system.
2. Extensible. It must be easily extensible to add support for
managing new services without code change so that 3rd party developer
(including OSS communities and commercial vendors) can enhance its
features and evolve it. Hence, the architecture design is the key.
3. Large Scale. It not only can work on single node but also can
manage multiple nodes. This is useful for enterprise-grade large scale
deployment.
Unless some tools are available that closely match the requirement,
otherwise, they will not be in voyage.
Regards,
Punky
Jeff R. Allen wrote:
Hello all,
Just thought I'd introduce myself. I am just getting started with
Voyage, and I really like what I see so far. I'll be porting some
stuff I had working on OpenWRT over in the next few days.
I'm trying to decide which direction to go to put a web-ui on the box.
Right now, I am headed towards Wifi-admin
(http://wifiadmin.sourceforge.net/). Anyone have success and/or horror
stories to tell?
Finally, I'd really appreciate it if I could look at an example of
using the customization framework. I can generally see what it's
supposed to look like but a concrete example would be helpful.
Thanks,
-jeff
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