Re: [Clockwork-developers] Architecture of job scheduler

[Shawn M. <smc...@ei...>]

This one time, at band camp, Joel Loudermilk wrote:
>=20
> scheduler, since we would want to distribute the database as well. In that
> design, does anybody have an idea how a GUI monitoring tool would be able
> to see the current state of the schedule? Wouldn't it have to poll lots
> and lots of systems?

Well, there's nothing that says the monitoring couldn't be centralized,
with a server process watching broadcast traffic.

However, I really don't like the idea of using broadcasts, since the
odds of missing a packet and thus having wrong information is high.