Any update on a bridge/agent for CentOS/RHEL 6.7 Server monitoring & support

[Donald DAvanzo]

Hello everyone

Just wanted to see if anyone has made any lead way with supporting
CentOS/RHEL 6.7 via a bridge / agent so these os releases can be brought
into cockpit for resource / servcice monitoring

I know about 8 or 9 months ago this was talked about but not sure if anyone
has taken it upon themselves to come up with a solution yet or if there is
one in the works.

Let me know as we still have a few hundred 6.7 clients hosted in our cloud
and it will take a very long time to safely migrate them if even possible
to a 7.x release.

Regards,
Donald R. D'Avanzo Jr

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[Manoj]

Donald DAvanzo <don <at> redrockhost.com> writes:
> Hello everyoneJust wanted to see if anyone has made any lead way with

supporting CentOS/RHEL 6.7 via a bridge / agent so these os releases can 
be brought into cockpit for resource / servcice monitoring I know about 
8 or 9 months ago this was talked about but not sure if anyone has taken 
it upon themselves to come up with a solution yet or if there is one in 
the works.Let me know as we still have a few hundred 6.7 clients hosted 
in our cloud and it will take a very long time to safely migrate them if 
even possible to a 7.x release.
> Regards,Donald R. D'Avanzo JrChief Technology OfficerRed Rock Tech

LLC. / Sin City CloudOffice: [phone] | Direct: (702) 302-94329205 
West Russell Road,Suite 240 | Las Vegas, Nevada 89148
> www.sincitycloud.com
>
> Hi Donald,

Have you got any update regarding this? I am trying to run cockpit on 
6.7 as well and there are still a few dependencies which runs on v7.
> cockpit-devel mailing list
> cockpit-devel <at> lists.fedorahosted.org
> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cockpit-devel

[Stef Walter]

On 21.01.2016 05:05, Manoj wrote:
> Donald DAvanzo <don <at> redrockhost.com> writes:
> > Hello everyoneJust wanted to see if anyone has made any lead way with
>
> supporting CentOS/RHEL 6.7 via a bridge / agent so these os releases can 
> be brought into cockpit for resource / servcice monitoring I know about 
> 8 or 9 months ago this was talked about but not sure if anyone has taken 
> it upon themselves to come up with a solution yet or if there is one in 
> the works.Let me know as we still have a few hundred 6.7 clients hosted 
> in our cloud and it will take a very long time to safely migrate them if 
> even possible to a 7.x release.

We discussed this on this same mailing list earlier today, here's the
initial work that would need to be done:

https://trello.com/c/3h8dyPl6/70-build-cockpit-bridge-rhel6

Stef
> > Hi Donald,
>
> Have you got any update regarding this? I am trying to run cockpit on 
> 6.7 as well and there are still a few dependencies which runs on v7.

[Stef Walter]

On 21.01.2016 18:14, Stef Walter wrote:
> On 21.01.2016 05:05, Manoj wrote:
> > Donald DAvanzo <don <at> redrockhost.com> writes:
> > > Hello everyoneJust wanted to see if anyone has made any lead way with
> >
> > supporting CentOS/RHEL 6.7 via a bridge / agent so these os releases can 
> > be brought into cockpit for resource / servcice monitoring I know about 
> > 8 or 9 months ago this was talked about but not sure if anyone has taken 
> > it upon themselves to come up with a solution yet or if there is one in 
> > the works.Let me know as we still have a few hundred 6.7 clients hosted 
> > in our cloud and it will take a very long time to safely migrate them if 
> > even possible to a 7.x release.
>
> We discussed this on this same mailing list earlier today ...

Hmmm, I thought it was on this thread ... but apparently it was on a
similarly named list called cockpit-devel-owner which I didn't even know
existed.

So here's a summary:

The build failures one sees when building cockpit on RHEL 6 are just the
beginning. Yes, that's just the tip of the Iceberg. It would take some
one a couple months of work to get things in shape for running CentOS 6
or RHEL 6.

And once that work is done most of the actual user interface parts
would not be relevant ... due to missing system APIs, such as systemd,
NetworkManager, storaged, libssh ... and so on.

However it's possible and I don't know of anyone who's against this
work. It is possible to get to a point where Cockpit loads and displays
a rudimentary display and configuration, and a terminal.

For anyone who wants to drive this forward and doesn't want to wait, the
first steps to take are here:

https://trello.com/c/3h8dyPl6/70-build-cockpit-bridge-rhel6

Cheers,

Stef