Sun to open source Ops Center
In a previous post, I mentioned the announcement of the Sun's Ops Center product targeted to the management of virtual environments. In this post, I said that Ops Center was a re-branded N1 System Manager, while in fact, it seems that this is a merge of the Sun Connection and N1 System Manager in one tool :
A highly scalable datacenter automation tool merging discover, update, provisioning, monitoring, and reporting technologies from Sun Connection and N1SM into one tool.
However, by looking at the Oracle World demo, it seems that the UI is radically different from the N1 System Manager (gone the embedded CLI ?).
Also, by looking at the supported platform, it seems that Windows platform is not supported anymore :
Sun N1 System Manager :
From a centralized management console, customers can provision Solaris, Linux, and Windows with a simple drag-and-drop, and monitors the health of systems in an efficient manner.
The comprehensive, highly scalable Linux and Solaris life cycle management tool.
The good news is that Sun Ops Center will be delivered as open source too :
Building on Sun's commitment to open standards and customer choice, Sun will continue to innovate the Sun xVM platform and collaborate with open source communities. The first of Sun's contributions will be the Common Agent Container (CAC) code to the OpenxVM.org community under GPLv3. The CAC is the heart of the management infrastructure for many of Sun's products, including the Sun xVM Ops Center. In addition, Sun plans to make the entire code base used by Sun xVM Ops Center available to the OpenxVM.org community in the first quarter of 2008.
It's not clear however if this means the end of life for the N1 System Manager, since right now, the Ops Center does not provide a complete replacement.
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Re: Sun to open source Ops Center
The infrastructure itself is pretty cool using a JMX over a combination of ATOM and more
generic XML for its transport. There has also been an additional architectural element
added in the form of a "router" or "proxy" which allows information to flow across
networks easier.
As for it not being a complete replacement for N1SM, everything is there apart from
the Windows RIS integration which wasn't that great anyway. We are investigating
better methods of performing this kind of operation in subsequent versions