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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">How could we conceive a
decentralized database model?<br>
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Here some of our networks (we call them "islands" cos on they map
they look like isolated networks) will need to access the device
via SSH.<br>
Many people already talk about developing something similar to
aircontrol in the near future to manage the network.<br>
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Of course it wouldn't be smart to put all the passwords of the
devices of the entire network of an entire country on a single
database. We need to be able to split it. Decentralization is also
needed so the checks on the devices (SNMP for example, but in
Slovenia they made a custom way to retrieve stuff via HTTP) can be
performed in autonomy by every "island".<br>
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We mostly all need the nodes to be grouped, nodewatcher call it
project, some other nodeDBs call it zone or area.<br>
So that you can have project "Rome", project "Pisa" and project
"Milan", until here is easy.<br>
Suppose Pisa wants to be autonomous in managing their nodes, they
might want to host their database on one of their machines in
their network and performs monitoring checks in complete autonomy.<br>
Suppose instead that Milan doesn't want to do so because they
don't yet have enough expertize or volounteers to do it, so they
want to stick with the main database until one day they might
switch.<br>
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Since we are conceiving something new, we are doing it for our
future, it would be a good idea to start with decentralization in
mind. What do you think?</font><br>
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<b>Federico Capoano</b><br>
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