Quoting Brad Nicholes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2-* Add a GROUP attribute (comma delimited) to the XDR data > This would allow metrics to declare the category that they > belong to. The category should be added at the metric definition > level within the metric module rather than a directive in the .conf > file. Again if there were a more flexible way to add extra metric > metadata to the XDR package, that would be the preferred method. > Short of that, I just plan to add an attribute that would hold a > comma delimited list of group names that a metric can belong to.
I think that adding group names as multiple entities in their own right, rather than a CSV list, would make it much easier to find metrics that are part of a given group. <GANGLIA_XML> <CLUSTER> <HOST> <METRIC name='queries_per_second'> <GROUP>mysql</GROUP> <GROUP>other-group</GROUP> </METRIC> </HOST> </CLUSTER> </GANGLIA_XML> With something like that, it's easy to find all metrics which are in a group with a simple XPath query. $query = "/GANGLIA_XML/CLUSTER/HOST/METRIC[GROUP='mysql']" With the csv list approach, you'd have to select all metrics and do extra string processing on the 'GROUP' attribute to find the ones you wanted. Just my 2 cents, alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers