Imagine the internal monitoring that a hosting company might need. They'd have to manage: * All the (virtual machine) host boxes. * All the routers, switcher

Imagine the internal monitoring that a hosting company might need. They'd have to manage: * All the (virtual machine) host boxes. * All the routers, switchers, and firewalls. * Status-checks, on hosted sites, etc. In the end I designed and implemented a system which was capable of running all the tests in around 90 seconds, by virtue of being distributed. One host does all the parsing and such like, and N-other hosts could pull out tests to execute. (As it happened we ran everything on a single box, but it was designed to be distributed, it just transpired that having 6-10 worker process pulling jobs from the queue to execute was good enough.) Introduction: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2012/12/19/custodian-a-network-monitoring-program http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2012/12/19/custodian-a-network-mo... Code: https://projects.bytemark.co.uk/projects/custodian https://projects.bytemark.co.uk/projects/custodian