i forget to mention how the plugins will work.
when gmond starts it will load all the monitoring plugins.. these plugins
will register a part of the overall monitoring tree.
the metric tree will be no different than say a filesystem directory
structure. i think we should "standardize" a part of the tree with the
root being say "ganglia" but let the rest be free for other developers to
do as they please.
ganglia
+ cpu
+ number
+ speed
+ user
+ system
+ nice
+ idle
+ load
+ 1 minute
+ 5 minute
+15 minute
+ processes
+ ...
+ users
+ ...
.. just as an example.
<mu name="ganglia">
<mu name="cpu">
<metric name="number" value="..."/>
...
</mu>
<mu name="memory">
...
</mu>
...
</mu>
at least in this part of the metric space we'll know where to expect
things to be.
--
matt
