Re: [Moosefs-users] MooseFS Python API

[Thomas S H. <tha...@gm...>]

This looks like great stuff Joseph! It will help my deployment a lot so that
we will be able to gather stats directly from the mfsmaster and merge them
back into our main stats database.

I also think that this will greatly enhance Salt's moosefs support as well,
thanks Joseph!

-Thomas S Hatch

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Joseph Hall <per...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>
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