Re: mirage Xen microkernel monitoring in EC2

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Sep 2013, at 21:48, William Le Ferrand wrote:

> I'm trying to convince a customer to try Mirage,

cool!  would be very interested in any experiences doing that you can share ...

> and the first question they have is "how do we monitor this thing?". Xen has 
> snmp support but it probably can't be activated in EC2. 
> 
> Does this question even make sense :) ? 

it does to me; i can't answer the specifics regarding snmp access to 
microkernels on ec2 through xen, but it does make me think that perhaps we 
should add an SNMP stack to the list of desirable mirage libraries! :)

(and possibly consider starting to define a "unikernel MIB" given the other 
activity in this space...)

-- 
Cheers,

R.




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