Perhaps as part of installing gmond it could be recommended to go the extra step to set up rysnc+ssh to distribute gmond, using the ssh-keyinstall script available on the net or preferably an improvement on this particular script that would automate the setup of ssh keys even further. Then replacing gmond's to a new version on even huge installations shouldn't be too much effort. As part of the install a unique gmond user would be suggested to be created to tie together all the machines.
Also how about breaking down gmond even further into a sub components that allow for the streaming of files through it, to/from via multicast. Then future versions and gexec modules etc could be streamed out, perhaps even wrapped through ssh encryption. ----- Original Message ----- > > > There is a fairly large user base of OSCAR installs using 2.2.3 so it is not > > trivial to go around to all of those and replace the version of ganglia. > >
