RightInfrastructureAgent

DESCRIPTION

Synopsis

RightInfrastructureAgent provides the foundation for RightScale infrastructure servers that connect into the RightScale system via the RabbitMQ message bus. It extends RightAgent in configuration, monitoring, and packet handling areas as needed generically by infrastructure servers.

Maintained by the RightScale Teal Team

Interface

A RightInfrastructureAgent exposes its services via actors and methods that are invoked by requests packets it receives via its message queue. The actors provided are specific to the given agent.

RightInfrastructureAgent comes with several library modules for forming basic command line tools in addition to those provided in RightAgent:

infrastructure_agent_deployer: Build configuration file for running an agent (rad tool)
infrastructure_agent_controller: Manage an agent that has been configured (rnac tool)

Supported Configuration

RightInfrastructureAgent has been tested on EC2 instances running CentOS 5.2 and Ubuntu 8.10.

Work in Progress

RightInfrastructureAgent is work in progress.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

1

RabbitMQ is www.rabbitmq.com/documentation.html

CHANGELOG

0.15.1: The server_superuser role is now taken into account when building policies

LICENSE

RightAgent

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