RESTful Storage API ?

[Marvin S. Addison]

> Like use curl to query the storage service for its load periodically
> and graph via an RRDtool tool ?

Yes, exactly.

> Makes me think though, that some sort of default monitoring of
> services would be nice, like the StatusServlet but better.

I encourage you to consider it. We recently added a fairly simple 
monitoring API to CAS and it's served us very well here at Virginia Tech 
for deep monitoring into vital subsystems like database/LDAP connection 
pools and memcached statistics. The CAS /status URI now drives our load 
balancer and enterprise monitoring software.

M