Server administration web console design thoughts

[Nicolas Valcarcel]

And why should we drop eBox for your new web administration console?
Wouldn't it be better to contribute to eBox instead of writing a new one
(Ruby is not SO different from perl*). I don't think a duplication of
efforts won't be productive unless you have a really different idea, and
it couldn't be integrated on it. Even for UCSA which will be a CLI tool
(ncurses based) i have been talking to eBox to try to unify efforts and
try to reuse code and/or work, not just doing it again. It's just a
suggestions, don't take it personal or feel offended with this, that's
not why i tried to express, just making suggestions for making things
better.

* SO is the key here

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 20:49 -0500, James Dinkel wrote:
> So I've been thinking about trying my hand at my own web management
> thingy and maybe some of this could apply to UCSA, also.  To start
> with, I only know how to program in Ruby, so anything I write will be
> in Ruby (and probably utilizing Rails).  Now, having an embedded
> webserver is a must, and COULD be a piece of cake with Ruby by just
> using WEBrick, Mongrel, or Thin with a Rails application.  However,
> I'm thinking it would be a great idea to have the web server run from
> xinetd.  That way it's only running when you need it.  I go for months
> without logging in via ssh or webmin once my servers are put into
> production, so this could free up some memory when it's not in use
> (and every bit helps when you run 10+ virtual machines per server, all
> hungry for more RAM).
> 
> So anyway, I have no idea where to even start writing a web service to
> run from xinetd.  Is it enough to just have a script that outputs html
> text to stdout?  I'm guessing it's more complicated then that though.
> Also, what do people think about running a web management console from
> xinetd in the first place?
> 
> James Dinkel
> 
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