Does python is suitable for enterprise cluster management?

[Steve Holden]

Asaf Hayman wrote:
> Is anyone familiar or aware of a successful enterprise class project
> in Python to control and monitor a cluster of computers?
> 
> As a part of a bigger project my company needs to build a cluster
> management system. The aim of the system is to control and synchronize
> applications. Namely, a central management will get events from the
> remote applications and from a user and will react with commands to
> the applications.
> Existing tools don’t fit our requirements, so we will have to write it
> ourselves.
> We are currently pondering which programming language will best suite
> us. The two major contenders are Python and Java.
> 
> Some requirements:
> 1. Cluster size is about 100 nodes. Only few applications per node.
> 2. Database interface.
> 3. Rate of messages: Few hundred messages per second at peak time.
> 4. External web application for control (only few users)
> 5. RPC between the management system to application written in c.
> 6. The whole system will run within a LAN, and the required
> responsiveness latency should be no more than 1sec.
> 
> There are probably some more requirements which are common for cluster
> management systems.
> 
> We are currently looking for success stories of a similar projects
> done in Python. It will be great if someone could point me to a
> success story. It will be even better if I could talk with someone
> which was involved in such a project.
> 
http://www.zenoss.com/ ?

regards
 Steve
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