Remotely Captured Hardware Information to Manage Data on Clusters

Remotely Captured Hardware Related Information to Manage Data on Clusters

Developed a robust and a secured application to capture hardware information from cluster nodes for managing hardware wear-and-tear conditions before-hand and take corrective actions.

Key Requirements

• Develop a robust and a secured application to capture hardware information from cluster nodes
• Application was required to have following features to ensure reliability and consistency

Key Contribution

• Developed a robust, platform and operating system independent application to gather data from cluster nodes
• Captured hardware information like processor details, disk, controller, interface, memory and fan specifics through various OS commands
• Used Apache ZooKeeper to store current and historical data centrally on various nodes in a cluster

Benefits

• Application helped client to manage hardware wear-and-tear conditions before-hand and take corrective actions. This in-return reduced the customer service turn-around time by 35%
• Client' support engineers could remotely maintain and respond to any hardware grievances or increasing demands within a short period of time