This is a work in progress. Python Gossip servers to share server state This is mostly based off of Cassandra's implementaiton: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureGossip which is based on the paper: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/flowgossip.pdf Requirements: * Python * Thrift thrift is used for serialization and asynchronous server messaging. You will need the thrift python libraries installed. http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ Platform: Running locally on Python 2.6 on MacOSX 10.6 Quick and dirty run through: In the polyp directory: $ thrift --gen py polyp.thrift $ thrift --gen py gossip.thrift $ sh test/test_spawn.sh Starting on port: 9990 Starting on port: 9991 Starting on port: 9992 Starting on port: 9993 Starting on port: 9999 $ python interactive_client.py -g test/test.lst Starting polyp server en localhost:9000 add_polyp <host>:<port> -- Add a polyp to the index get_state <polyp index> -- retrieve Polyp State information help -- display this message quit -- Exit the prompt show_polyps -- Show the polyps and their index > show_polyps 0 : ('localhost', 9990) 1 : ('localhost', 9991) 2 : ('localhost', 9992) 3 : ('localhost', 9993) 4 : ('localhost', 9999) > get_state 0 GetStateMessage(endpoints=[Endpoint(port=9990, address='localhost'), Endpoint(port=9991, address='localhost'), Endpoint(port=9992, address='localhost'), Endpoint(port=9993, address='localhost'), Endpoint(port=9999, address='localhost')]) > Status from localhost:9990 localhost : 9990 generation: 0 version:5 {} localhost : 9991 generation: 0 version:4 {} localhost : 9992 generation: 0 version:5 {} localhost : 9993 generation: 0 version:4 {} localhost : 9999 generation: 0 version:5 {} quit $ sh test/kill_spawns.sh Gossip activity for the test spawns is verbosely logged into test/*.log