[Nodeshot] Not reinventing the wheel and Helping out

[nemesis]

 On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:51:15 +0100, Clauz <clauz at ninux.org> wrote:
> On 01/05/2014 05:39 PM, nemesis wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:39:50 -0600, "Charles N. Wyble"
>> <charles at knownelement.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I found this approach so good that I decided to extract a feature 
>>>> of
>>>> nodeshot into a separate pure-python repository:
>>>> https://github.com/nemesisdesign/netengine
>>>
>>>
>>> Please embrace/extend/use trigger:
>>>
>>> http://trigger.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>>>
>>> Adding OpenWRT support to that package would be a HUGE win.
>>
>>
>> That would be interesting. But we should get in touch with the 
>> authors
>> of that library before proceeding.
>>
>> Our main need is to have a common API to extract information from
>> devices. We have to understand if some features we need are 
>> compatible
>> with the goals of that library and if authors are willing to let us
>> contribute. If they're positive about it that would be awsome :)
>>
>> @Clauz, have you checked that out?^
>
> Hi, everybody.
> Sorry for the lag :) I had a look at the docs and it looks like an
> awesome project. But, I understand that this is meant to be a tool to
> configure devices from a central point, not to monitor them.
>
> For instance there is no support for SNMP or HTTP (some routers might
> have SNMP disabled, no monitoring SSH access but still a web page
> showing some information) and there are some features that we don't 
> need
> and that perhaps can slow down development, such as the translation 
> of
> configurations between vendors.
>
> Instead I suggest a merge with some of this code:
> https://github.com/FFM/FFM/tree/master/spider

 We could try implementing the Luci HTTP JSON-RPC API, that would be 
 probably much better than parsing the HTML.. don't you think?

 BTW i'm meeting on thursday with Saverio at Sans Papier, can you come 
 to do a sprint with us? Joxer, Matteo and Lux said they're coming too.

 Federico