Entrails of the OSCAR Monitoring Framework!

(GSoC update)

After about 3 weeks of coding I am elated to announce the completion of the gathering subsystem in the OSCAR Monitoring framework. The first plugin that made use of the framework was written and successfully updated the monitoring database with data. This plugin makes use of the Round Robin Database created and managed by ganglia

For those not familiar with my project here is a description of the goals of the project and here are the milestones achieved so far:

1. Definition of Schemas and familiarity with the OSCAR code base.

2. Successful implementation of the framework core(Interface to OSCAR Database).

3.  Extension of the core framework to the gathering subsystem.

4. Creation of a ‘oscargather’ (the gathering subsystem initiator).

5. Successful development and testing of an OSCAR component plugin.

With these goals attained so far, I can now being development on the next subsystem “The Actor”. This will supposedly take the monitoring data present in the OSCAR database and interact with the other OSCAR components thereby allowing for a more intelligent and dynamic cluster administration resource!

~ by Chuka on June 16, 2008.