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Bug#649483: ITP: libstoragemgmt -- library for storage management



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>

* Package name    : libstoragemgmt
  Version         : git master
  Upstream Author : Tony Asleson <tasleson@redhat.com>
* URL             : http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libstoragemgmt/
* License         : LGPL
  Programming Lang: C++, Python
  Description     : library for storage management

library for a vendor agnostic open source storage application
programming interface (API) that will allow management of storage
arrays.

Planned features:
  Plug-in framework to facilitate storage array addition/integration
    Allow proprietary plug-ins (open source encouraged)
  Strong configurable security (TBD)
    Username/password, client/server certificates
  Interrogate/Query
    Capabilities, limits, versioning
    LUN listings
    Initiator listing
    Volume/Storage pool listing (Where to carve new logical disks)
  Manage logical disks (LUNS)
    creation (including thin provisioning)
    deletion
    re-sizing
    access control (LUN Masking)
    cloning/mirroring
    snapshots
  Command line interface for exercising API
  Python bindings


Future features:
  Monitoring and alerting (asynchronous event notification)
  Network attached file systems (NFS, CIFS)
  Integrated support for LIO target (http://linux-iscsi.org)
  Management of SAN switches
  Portable, availability for Linux, Solaris and Windows
  Java, Perl, Ruby bindings



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