[Moosefs-users] MooseFS Python API

[Joseph H. <per...@gm...>]

Hey All,

I hope I'm not stepping on any toes with this project. A few weeks ago
I was trying to set up monitoring for MooseFS, and I realized that the
closest thing to an API that seemed to be available was the web
interface. I didn't want to have to write a web scraper for it, so I
decided to take a peek inside and see if I could just do what it was
doing.

Long story short, I ripped out the parts that query the Moose and
tossed them into a class. I'll be the first to admit that most of the
code is stolen^Wborrowed from the original mfs.cgi, but it's certainly
much easier to integrate into monitoring apps than the web interface.
I have a project set up at:

https://github.com/techhat/python-moosefs

Hopefully it'll come in handy for somebody else too.

-- 
Joseph