[infinispan-dev] Management interface

[Manik Surtani]

This is related to

	https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-71

and I'm starting this thread to discuss how we should approach this,  
given that Heiko Rupp from the JOPR team's just joined the mail  
list.  :-)

So here is what I see as a need: a GUI console (probably based on  
JOPR) that would:

* provide info on the state of the cluster
* be able to locate entries via some interface
* visualise key statistics of each cluster node - memory consumption,  
cache hit/miss ratio, transaction success rate, network-level metrics  
such as throughput, etc
* perform management of the cluster - shut down, start nodes
* manage configuration?

The last one is probably optional.  The thing to keep in mind is that  
cache instances may not run in the same environment as an app server  
so even if the console requires an app server, the individual cache  
nodes should not.  Of course, if the cache is used within an app  
server, any advantages that come from that could be made use of, such  
as communication of common management information in an app server  
cluster for the embedded console.

For starters, Heiko, how does JOPR manage remote instances?  Does it  
require its own agent to be loaded in each remote VM with its own  
communication channel?

Cheers
Manik

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Manik Surtani
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