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Cronus agent is a python based agent that can be used for compute management, software deployment, command and control, system and application monitoring, task execution etc.

Main Features

• Software deployment
• System and application monitoring
• Command and control
• Task execution, house keeping

Platform and Feature Portability

• Support all major *nix OS

Application Life

• service, manifest, package life cycle
• life cycle state (staged, installed, activated, running, deactivated, uninstalled, removed)
• life cycle operations (stage, install, activate, start, shutdown, restart, reset, deactivate, delete, and other custom defined operations)
• application metadata

Monitoring and Reporting

• system and application monitoring with interval based scheduler
• metric publish over user prefer protocol
• metric decoration with additional tags and topology metadata
• self service monitoring

Command and Control

• execute command from trusted client
• execute script from trusted client

Infrastructure and Application Discovery

• Discover infrastructure and application data

Extendable Modules

• Extendable module framework allow custom module to be deployed on the fly, with new routes created

Technology

• RESTful API: Pylon on paster, resource based RESTful APIs
• Asynchronous execution, multi-threaded
• Logging: agent log, service log, activity log
• Security: RESTful interface over https, optional user/password or PKI based AuthN&AuthZ