Hi Brad, I like your idea. As the ganglia installation is quite easy an upgrade of all instances should be possible.
Regards, Ulf Brad Nicholes schrieb: > I am thinking about adding an optional metric "Alias" that can be assigned > to each metric through the gmond.conf file. The upside to this would be that > the web front-end would no longer have to display the cryptic metric name for > all of the graph titles and constant metrics. If an alias for the metric > name was supplied, then the front-end could use the alias when it instructs > RRD to create the graphs. > However, there is also a downside. In order to do this, it will require > that the metric message that is sent between gmond's, change in order to > propagate the alias from each node up into gmetad. By changing the metric > message, newer 3.1.x versions of gmond will no longer be able to talk to an > older 3.0.x gmond or earlier. So the first question would be, does that > matter? Is it OK to break compatibility between 3.0.x and 3.1.x versions of > Ganglia? When users upgrade to 3.1.x, are they likely to do a complete > upgrade all at once or expect to only upgrade some machines but not all? > Another issue would be that by assigning an Alias, a metric on one machine > could possible be presented by a different name than the same metric on > another machine. Hopefully, this issue would be minor due to the fact that > the metric name would be more descriptive of what the metric actually is, but > the names could be different. > My biggest motivation for this is to allow a user to give more descriptive > names to the metrics in the web front-end without the PHP code having to > figure it out. It also would eliminate the problem of constant metric names > or gmetric labels that are too long and mess up the web interface. Just > thought I would throw out the idea for feedback before I get too deep into > the implementation. > > Thoughts? > > Brad > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-developers mailing list > Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
