Agent improvement
The agent is itself an independent package. It needs to be improved in order to reduce drastically the resources used during its network & system checks. Other improvements include : (1) implementation of the NOMP protocol (measures and thresholds as objects, remote exec features...), (2) easier deployment (+ tarball with self-installer required), (3) more configuration options, (4) patch for disk limit monitor.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Essential
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Christophe Besson
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 0.2
- Implementation:
-
Slow progress
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Christophe Besson
- Completed by
Whiteboard
The agent is not internally designed with a secure protocol, since the Not Only Monitoring Protocol (NOMP, http://
- OpenSSH is a good standard (using the libssl), is already deployed on the most Linux/Unix hosts, and is basically ported on several proprietary systems [unfortunately, we have to be professionally OBJECTIVE ;-) ].
- OpenSSH allows lots of things, like tunneling TCP protocols (what we primarily need), secure transfer through SCP, key creation and basic key management... Probably the better way to consider an easy deployment over the network(s) !
Obviously, remote exec features of the agents have to be disabled by default if no secure mechanism has been introduced to encipher the communication between the collector and the agents.
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
