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Brian de Haaff
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07/14/2009 at 12:03
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In the past we gave you the ability to monitor your VMware hosts and guests, but now there is a complete Paglo application for your use. You can read about how to get started here

This application provides another key piece of in our rapidly expanding IT Management SaaS platform.

The Paglo Crawler includes a plugin that will collect rich information from VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, and VMware vCenter (Virtual Center). This information will be securely submitted to your Paglo Search Index.

Check out a few more screenshots of all of our server monitoring features and applications.

To install the new application, click on the word Applications on the left of the screen (while logged in to your account) and select Install Application.

Send us an email or call if you want to learn more.
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Icon_time 07/14/2009 at 18:30 [Edit Comment]

I’ve brought up the idea about having the crawler be more self sustaining in terms of updating, but this post brought up the idea that it might be cool to have a VMWare Virtual Appliance Crawler. That way, you could build a linux based crawler and make it super simple to install and self maintain since there would be no external dependencies. Food for thought at the very least. Keep up the good work guys!

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Icon_time 07/15/2009 at 08:27 [Edit Comment]

Virtual appliances are a nice way to distributed software, especially when it has a lot of dependencies. We have just released Debian packages for the linux version of the Crawler which should make it much easier to install for some people. But the different packaging systems and kernel versions are still a problem which a virtual appliance would overcome … assuming your OS is supported by the VMware player of course.
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Icon_time 07/15/2009 at 08:42 [Edit Comment]

I was thinking more along the lines of a highly stripped down dist that is hardened such that you can only do very few things from the console of the virtual appliance. Think of it akin to VMWare ESX. The end user wouldn’t really have to do anything but turn it on (assuming DHCP was available). Everything else would be totally automatic ideally.