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List:       linux-ha
Subject:    Re: a command line client: comments sought (was Re: [Linux-HA] cli)
From:       Andrew Beekhof <beekhof () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-06-30 5:55:29
Message-ID: 4F19BF3C-9F7F-45F7-B968-5CEB8DC65142 () gmail ! com
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On Jun 29, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Sander van Vugt wrote:

> Hi all,
> > I'm not sure that one tool able to provide all requested features  
> > will
> > really simplify things. A such tool will have to support a billion of
> > various command line options and parameters. Wouldn't it be easier to
> > have separate tools for controlling resources and configurations? I
> > mean one tool that will be able to
> > start/stop/move/unmove/manage/unmage/etc... resources and another  
> > tool
> > for adding and removing them in CIB? Kind of hat we have now with
> > cibadmin & crm_resource but with simpler and more intuitive syntax,
> > especially for cibadmin. Per my experience XML itself is the main  
> > part
> > that drives people crazy and hiding it out as much as it possible  
> > will
> > be the best achievement for a such tool.
> > 
> > There is a main set of function that is used most often: start a
> > resource, stop it, move it. Syntax for such things has to be easy to
> > type and easy to remember. Current tools don't provide it and that's
> > why almost everybody has his own homegrown script for those
> > operations. A remember at least 2 or 3 published on this list.
> > 
> For those of you that know Novell Cluster Services, in that product
> there is just one CLI tool with the name "cluster". It's a very
> intuitive tool, you can almost guess how to use it.  Would be cool  
> if we
> can have something like that in Heartbeat.

Thats the general idea.

> (Take a look here:
> http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes2/clus_admin_lx/index.html?page=/documentation/oes2/clus_admin_lx/data/ncsclusresources.html \
>  for some examples of this tool.
> 
> Sander
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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