node status

[Bob Campbell]

Okay, thanks for all the viewpoints on NIS, looks like rsync
is the best way to go.

There was mention of ways to help recognise and sync downed
nodes. What I would like is a tool of some sort that would
keep a live status of all the nodes, and what state they are in.
These 'states' could be as simple as UP, DOWN, BOOTING, FAILED, etc.
I would also like this to insert and remove the hosts from the list
of available hosts.


.....

Ok, I know Beowulf2 already has this. Beowulf2 looks to do all this
with bproc though, and I need to stay in userspace. For various
reasons I need to stay with vendor supplied kernels so I cant
compile bproc in.


any thoughts on this, or anyone know of any software with similar
features?


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