2:12 p.m.
Hi,
sorry for not having responded earlier (and this email
was laying written but not sent in my outbox too :-( )
Some my preliminar doubts (perhaps this was discussed in a different
thread, so please, point me to that if I missed it):
* Where will be stored metrics and inventory ?
That info should live in the provider (owner of that information) and
copied to ManageIQ repository ? Or on
Yes. MiQ will pull that via the provider integration code.
the contrary, ManageIQ will be the owner of that info and the
provider
is a technical cache.
While it is a cache, it is also the authoritative source.
* How information of the providers is collected ?
In some preliminary meeting I understood that agents or whatever
mechanism that collects information of the middleware domain should be
sent to the provider. Is this
Yes
valid ? or the architecture is that in the future all agents should
be
managed directly into ManageIQ ?
No.
Please look at figure 1 of
http://www.hawkular.org/blog/2016/02/22/hawkular-manage-iq.html
I guess that this is some kind of hybrid architecture as there will
be
always external provider (thinking on Amazon or other domain) that is
managed by ManageIQ but the provider is the owner of the info.
Yes.
model, I'm sure that Amazon cloud will have their own alerting
definitions, perhaps an hybrid approach can be used here).
Yes. The question is of course how to drive it. At least
for some of the alerts you need a UI to set them up.
And having 2 places inside the MiQ UI that set up 2
different kinds of alerts could be seen as confusing.
What would certainly good is to be
have "canned" alerts e.g. for resource going up/down,
WildFly needing a reload and a few others where
the notification would result into injecting a MiQ
event into MiQ for further processing.
* Roles
Are we going to provide strong role profiles ? for example a
middleware role, that only can see the Middleware information without
any access to cloud/infrastructure.
You mean in MiQ? That needs to be decided.
I think hiding some of their stuff for newbie
users could be helpful.
On the other hand, the knowledge MiQ provides
for the OS-level (be it real, virtual, containerized) and
our knowledge of the application level is a pretty
strong combination.
How API should work in this case ? All API should be proxied/routed
by
ManageIQ or accesing to the provider
That is my understanding.
API is valid ? (Again, thinking on external providers like Amazon
makes me wonder what is the goal of this).