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