[Pacemaker] Announce: LCMC (Linux Cluster Management Console)

[Rasto Levrinc]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
<dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:
> On 10/02/2011 11:04 PM, Rasto Levrinc wrote:
>>
>> Good news everyone!
>>
>> I am happy to announce LCMC, Linux Cluster Management Console. LCMC is a
>> Java GUI application that configures, manages and visualizes Linux
>> clusters in a
>> way that is not possible to be web-based. Specifically it manages clusters
>> that use one or more of these components: Pacemaker, Corosync, Heartbeat,
>> DRBD, KVM, XEN and LVM.
>
> What does LCMC do that is not possible to be web based? That sounds like an
> exaggeration.

Sorry, marketing amateur here. :)

>
>> If that sounds familiar, you are right, LCMC is a fork of DRBD MC, that
>> unexpectedly passed away. Yes, I was surprised as you are, but after
>> couple of
>> minutes of mourning the untimely death as the developer of the DRBD MC, I
>> decided to continue with it. I think I am not the only one to mourn it,
>> other
>> Pacemaker GUIs have a long long way to go and also this one is awesome.
>
> Since you describe it as a fork does that mean that LCMC is a project
> competing with DRBD MC or is it actually replacing DRBD MC?

Well, it is a fork, but since DRBD MC will not be developed by me or
anybody else
(as far as I can tell) it is also replacing it. I am not sure what the
correct term is.

> You should add a "LICENSE" file to the github repo to make it clear that
> this is a GPL project (the README contains a copyright notice but doesn't
> mention any licensing terms).

Ok, now there's the licence file.

Rasto