Alex, Yeah, I already have a ton of questions and need some pointers in large scale deploys (best practices, do's, dont's, etc,).
I would love to get my hands on your shell scripts to figure out what you are doing (the unicast idea is pretty good). Chris On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 09:35, Alex Balk wrote: > Chris, > > > Cool! Thanks! > > If you need any pointers on large-scale deployments, beyond the > excellent thread that was discussed here last month, drop us a line. I'm > managing Ganglia on a cluster of about the same size as yours, spanning > multiple sites. > > > I've developed a framework for automating the deployment of Ganglia in a > federated mode (we use unicast). I'm currently negotiating the > possibility of releasing this framework to the Ganglia community. It's > not the prettiest piece of code, as it's written in bash and spans a few > thousands lines of code (I didn't expect it to grow into something like > that), but it provides some nice functionality like map-based logical > clusters, automatic node migration between clusters, map-based gmetrics, > and some other candies. > > If negotiations fail I'll consider rewriting it from scratch in perl on > my own free time. > > > btw, I think Martin was looking for a build on HP-UX 11... > > > Cheers, > > Alex > > > Chris Croswhite wrote: > > >> This raises another issue, which I believe is significant to the > >> development process of Ganglia. At the moment we don't seem to have > >> (correct me if I'm wrong) official testers for various platforms. > >> Maybe we could have some people volunteer to be official beta testers? > >> We wouldn't have to have a release out the door without properly > >> testing it under most OS/archs. > >> > > > > > > The company I work for is looking to deploy ganglia across all compute > > farms, some ~10k systems. I could help with beta testing on these > > platforms: > > HP-UX 11+11i > > AIX51+53 > > slowlaris7-10 > > solaris10 x64 > > linux32/64 (SuSE and RH) > > > > Just let me know when you have a new candidate and I can push the client > > onto some test systems. > > > > Chris > > > >
