[infinispan-dev] Management interface

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 -- Manik Surtani manik(a)jboss.org Lead, Infinispan Lead, JBoss Cache http://www.infinispan.org http://www.jbosscache.org