[Gluster-infra] Installation of ldap, and monitoring

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:10:30PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> so, I have 2 questions for the list:
> - I would like to start using a ldap directory, since this would ease
> the administration and account creation all over the place. 
> 
> I did setup freeipa yesterday for another project ( smaller scale ), and
> it was really fast and easy. Would someone be against the installation
> of  a ldap server for gluster.org infra, and start to enroll the various
> servers in it ?
> 
> To be clear, the idea would be to manage all servers with it, ie jenkins
> too, and then start to use it to give shell access to the said servers.
> We need then to work on what groups we want and what kind of access,
> etc, but we can start small. 
> 
> So far, i would also like to have access to the jenkins servers so I can
> place them in salt, and then it would ease deployment of ipa-client.
> 
> Non linux hosts integration is still a open question.

Sounds like a good thing to do!

> - I am currently working on a project to have some of the gluster CI in
> a DC with servers sponsored by RH. We got the server, and soon have a IP
> address, but I would like to have some data on the bandwidht required to
> have proper ressources. I do not know if we can get that from rackspace,
> so discussing on irc, I proposed "munin" ( because that's the simplest I
> know ), ndevos said "zabbix" and so did firemanxbr.
> 
> I indeed think zabbix would indeed be nice, but I am not a expert, is
> anyone against it ?

Zabbix or munin, I really don't care, I'n not an expert in either :)

Niels