R1Soft CDP Agent compatibility?

[agathongroup]

Does anyone know if R1Soft's CDP Agent will run successfully in the AppLogic environment? A client passed a URL along to me — http://kb.r1soft.com/questions/91/Running+the+CDP+Agent+on+Xen — but I don't know enough about the details (especially caveat #1) to know whether the solutions that page describes are available in AppLogic.

Thoughts? Thanks in advance, :-)

Peter

[Yazan]

I've been asked about this as well. I think this might be better in the grid maintainer forum? We'll let the moderators decide.

Thanks for posting this, I've been meaning to do it myself.

[PeterNic]

Peter, Yazan,

I will follow up with the r1soft guys -- I recall some discussions around their requirement for having a partition table on the volumes.

Currently:
- in PV Linux, volumes are without a partition table (you can still create a volume with a partition table but you can't do this simply with "vol create")
- in Windows, volumes do have partition table, so you should be able to use as is

I'll ping r1soft

Regards,
-- Peter

[Chris]

I spoke with r1soft a few months back, this is what they said -


"In a short summary, there are ways that you can make our product work in Applogic. However, doing these types of manual configuration breaks some of the Applogic functionality and ISN’T SUPPORTED by them.

Our new version, CDP3, will eliminate the current issues altogether. We are moving to discover devices using GUIDs rather than a partition table. Please let us know if you have any other questions."


If you want specific instructions on how to get it working with linux let me know, I have those somewhere but never tried to actually get it running on applogic.

[PeterNic]

Chris, thanks.

I just got an e-mail from the r1soft founder (who is familiar with AppLogic) that v3 will resolve this issue in its first release, as it will no longer need a partition table in order to access a volume.

This means CDP will work in Linux appliances just as well as it in Windows (the current version, v2, should be OK in Windows).

He also pointed us to http://wiki.r1soft.com/x/HxFE for more information.

I look forward to seeing this in action.


Regards,
-- Peter

[Karl]

We were talking with them some months back about it, I only pinged them the other day to ask if they'd got this sorted, but didn't get a reply. Good to hear that they are sorting this.

[agathongroup]

Agreed, thanks for the follow up!