Ovirt devel - Jul 2008 - hardware monitoring support?

Are there plans to provide sufficient infrastructure for 3rd party hardware 
monitoring agents with oVirt hypervisor layer?

I am thinking about the usual suspects HP, Dell, IBM


-regards
Subhendu
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:32:12AM -0400, Subhendu Ghosh
wrote:
> Are there plans to provide sufficient infrastructure for 3rd party 
> hardware monitoring agents with oVirt hypervisor layer?
> 
> I am thinking about the usual suspects HP, Dell, IBM
  You mean DMTF CIM providers ? If yes adding libvirt-cim and
some CMPI provider package (pegasus or sfcb) on the host images might
be possible but it will take room.

Daniel

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On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:32:12AM -0400, Subhendu Ghosh
wrote:
> Are there plans to provide sufficient infrastructure for 3rd party hardware
> monitoring agents with oVirt hypervisor layer?
The general purpose oVirt host image has tight space constraints which
mean that we've stripped the pacakge set installed right back to the bare
minimum needed to support oVirt, and we also prune files on a blacklist
post-install. So adding extra 3rd party software is not really an option
for the general image. 

If you had a need for extra software though it would be possible to use
the livecd tools to build a custom host image at a larger size, containing
the extra packages desired.

Daniel
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