[Lustre-discuss] new lustre management tools

[Robert Read]

Hi,

It has come to our attention that Lustre is occasionally found to be  
difficult to configure and manage. To address this, we are exploring  
options for improving our configuration tools for Lustre, including  
replacing lustre_config completely.  However, we want to engage our  
user community as much as possible in this effort, since that help  
ensure the tools we end up with will be a good fit for those who use  
it the most.  For instance, the new tool "Shine" (CEA's rewrite of  
Bull's admin tools) looks very promising and I encourage everyone  
interested in this to check it out: http://shine-wiki.async.eu/wiki/ 
Home.  Does anyone know of other tools or efforts underway to build  
one?   Ideally, I'd like to concentrate efforts on one solution, and  
declare this to be the "official" tool.

On related note, what do people use to monitor Lustre?  Of course  
there is LMT (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmt/), and I've heard  
reports of others using nagios and/or ganglia, as well. Anything else?  
Should we start documenting these on a "best practices" wiki page?

cheers,
robert