[Hawkular-dev] scope of the agent design

[Heiko W.Rupp]

On 16 Mar 2015, at 20:58, Lukas Krejci wrote:
> On the "agent side" there are more than plenty of tools that are 
> already in
> use. We should first try to find ways of integrating with these tools 
> and only
> when none of pre-existing stuff implements our usecase (in a good 
> enough way)
> we should look to implement an "agent" of our own.

What if the users does not have any of those tools installed?
Do we tell them "install Ganglia, but not the graphing, only the 
monitoring".
Ah and as this does not cope well with WildFly 94 please install 
collectd on top?

> not some "heavy" agent in the RHQ sense.

Running many of the small tools in parallel also has a cost. Similar
to forking hundreds and thousands of shell commands.