> we´re currently investigating management frameworks for
> our application.
>
> Before delving deeper into Rhino I´ve got a question
> which I couldn´t answer from the docu:
> is it possible to monitor and manage multiple servers
> from one GUI? (I would assume so, but ...)
Yes, but that functionality isn't part of Rhino. For example, in FailSafe,
you connect to one node in the cluster; when you use the FailSafe GUI to add
new nodes to the cluster, or to start or stop HA services, set up resource
groups, etc., the inter-node communication is handled by the FailSafe
libraries & processes which you'd use even if you weren't using the GUI.
(You can still monitor & change the status of all the nodes in the cluster
with the single GUI, of course.) For a different kind of managing-multiple-
servers tool, SystemImager replicates installed software & configuration
across many hosts, but again, you're only connecting the SystemImager GUI to
one machine, and the underlying SystemImager stuff talks to the others. (I'm
not familiar with SystemImager, but I think that's right.)
--Rusty
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