<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" >Yes Arcastream aka Pixit Media aka Arcapix have a Pyhon API for a while.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >They also wrote and shipped a GPFS GUI a long time before IBM.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >You could ask them about Nirvana (cf. iRods) too ?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >You could look up some of their presentations they have made at the GPFS-UG meetings.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >eg&nbsp; from the UK GPFS-UG meeting at South Bank, London earlier this year:</div>
<div dir="ltr" ><a href="http://www.spectrumscale.org/presentations" target="_blank" >http://www.spectrumscale.org/presentations</a>/</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >There are other companies too that support GPFS and have written their own components and enhancements.</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: Aaron Knister &lt;aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov&gt;<br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: &lt;gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org&gt;<br>Cc:<br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] testing commands<br>Date: Tue, Oct 4, 2016 10:49 PM<br>&nbsp;
<div><font size="2" face="Default Monospace,Courier New,Courier,monospace" >Not to get off-topic here, but WHOA! I had no idea somebody had created<br>a python API for GPFS. How does one get access to said API?<br><br>On 10/4/16 4:37 PM, Jez Tucker wrote:<br>&gt; Hi<br>&gt;<br>&gt; &nbsp; So we were chatting a while ago about dry-run requirements, but more<br>&gt; with respect to mmapplypolicy.<br>&gt; For relevance to those on the list who run our Python API, you'll find<br>&gt; dry-run functionality here:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; <a href="http://arcapix.com/gpfsapi/execute.html#dry-run" target="_blank" >http://arcapix.com/gpfsapi/execute.html#dry-run</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt; Cheers,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Jez<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; On 04/10/16 18:04, Brian Marshall wrote:<br>&gt;&gt; All,<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; Is there a way to "test" GPFS commands and see what the output or<br>&gt;&gt; result would be before running them? &nbsp;For example, I'd like to verify<br>&gt;&gt; a command string before actually running it on a production system.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; Does IBM offer "test" licenses for setting up a small debug/devel<br>&gt;&gt; environment?<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; I'd be interested to hear everyone's best practices on verifying<br>&gt;&gt; commands/actions.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; Thanks,<br>&gt;&gt; Brian<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt;&gt; gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>&gt;&gt; gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>&gt;&gt; <a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank" >http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt; --<br>&gt; Jez Tucker<br>&gt; Head of Research &amp; Product Development<br>&gt; Pixit Media | ArcaStream<br>&gt; www.pixitmedia.com &lt;<a href="http://www.pixitmedia.com" target="_blank" >http://www.pixitmedia.com</a>&gt;<br>&gt; www.arcastream.com &lt;<a href="http://www.arcastream.com" target="_blank" >http://www.arcastream.com</a>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; This email is confidential in that it is intended for the exclusive<br>&gt; attention of the addressee(s) indicated. If you are not the intended<br>&gt; recipient, this email should not be read or disclosed to any other<br>&gt; person. Please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from<br>&gt; your computer system. Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those<br>&gt; of the company from which this email was sent and, whilst to the best of<br>&gt; our knowledge no viruses or defects exist, no responsibility can be<br>&gt; accepted for any loss or damage arising from its receipt or subsequent<br>&gt; use of this email.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>&gt; gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>&gt; <a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank" >http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a><br>&gt;<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank" >http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font><br>&nbsp;</div></blockquote>
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