[Gluster-devel] Troubleshooting and Diagnostic tools for Gluster

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Aravinda <avishwan at redhat.com> wrote:
> Initial idea for Tools Framework:
> ---------------------------------
> A Shell/Python script which looks for the tool in plugins sub directory, if
> exists pass all the arguments and call that script.
>
> `glustertool help` triggers a python Script plugins/help.py which reads
> plugins.yml file to get the list of tools and help messages associated
> with it.
>
> No restrictions on the choice of programming language to create
> tool. It can be bash, Python, Go, Rust, awk, sed etc.
>
> Challenges:
> - Each plugin may have different dependencies, installing all tools
> may install all the dependencies.
> - Multiple programming languages, may be difficult to maintain/build.
> - Maintenance of Third party tools.
> - Creating Plugins registry to discover tools created by other developers.

Diagnostics and remediation become important when a higher level
abstraction (eg. a management construct for Gluster deployments are
involved). What your thoughts on such frameworks being able to consume
the logs; identify the possible issues and recommend a fix/solution?
Does this proposal anticipate such a progression?



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