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CMT -- Cluster Management Tool
CMT is a Cluster Management Tool originally created at SARA Computing and Networking Services, which is based in Amsterdam and known as SARA nowadays. It once started as a single script, went through some reincarnations, and now it consists of a Django-powered backend on the server-side, and a CLI for the client-side.
The main reason behind CMT's existence is that we needed a tool that's capable of generating configuration-files for certain software running on our clusters. CMT has a database, where we store information about our hardware, which is used to (let CMT) generate configuration-files, based on templates. At SARA it's used in production, to generate configuration-files for services like for example dhcpd and bind. At the moment we're busy to make Python packages, to make it easy to install.
Features
Some features of CMT are:
- Dynamically extendable data model
- Server-side Django-powered easy-to-use web-interface
- Client-side powerful CLI, to use CMT from shellscripts, or interactive from shell
- Automagic generation of configuration files, with templates extended on Django Templates
- Export stored data to, and import from JSON
- Support for multiple clusters, networks, interfaces, etc...
- Easy to install package for the client-side functionalities
Wished features for future releases are:
- Import the client as a Python-module
- Split server- and client-functionalities as much as possible, and develop as packages apart from each other
- Build an API to make it easier to integrate CMT in other software/scripts
Requirements
- Django>=1.2, <1.3
- IPy==0.75
- django-extensions==0.4
- django-tagging==0.3.1
- psycopg2==2.4.4
Besides these Python-packages, the following software should be installed on your system:
- Python>=2.6
- header files and a static library for Python
- header files for libpq (PostgreSQL library)
Setup & Usage
Documentation of CMT is divided into several pages.
Server
Documentation about the central CMT server can be found here. This is meant for administrators of the central CMT server only. Users of CMT should skip this, and continue at the client documentation in the next subsection.
- Setup Server
- How to get the central CMT server up and running.
- FAQ?
- Some frequently asked questions with notes for CMT-administrators.
Client
- Quickstart
- This will give you a quick introduction on how to prepare your environment, and get started with the CMT client.
- User documentation
- Further details about how to use CMT as a user. This describes how to manage the information you store in CMT, and how to do this by using the interfaces it has.
- Templating documentation
- How to utilize CMT's templating engine to generate (config) files
Contact
Existing bugs and feature requests for CMT can be found in our overview of active tickets. If you have any issues with CMT, which aren't listed as a ticket yet, please create a new ticket or send us an email about it.