March 11, 2014 By Severalnines
For ops folks with multiple environments and instances to manage, a fully programmable infrastructure is the basis for automation. ClusterControl exposes all functionality through a REST API. The web UI also interacts with the REST API to retrieve monitoring data (cluster load, alarms, backup status, etc.) or to send management commands (add/remove nodes, run backups, upgrade a cluster, add/remove load balancer, etc.). The API is written in PHP and runs under Apache. The diagram below illustrates the architecture of ClusterControl.
Figure: ClusterControl - Agentless Architecture
In this blog post, we will show you how to interact directly with the ClusterControl API to retrieve monitoring data or to perform management tasks.
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