On Tuesday 06 November 2007 23:03:03 Brad Nicholes wrote: > So let me see if I understand this correctly. You have a main node which > is gathering metrics from the other cluster nodes through some other means > than gmond. Since your main node contains all of the metric data, your > only problem is pushing that data up through gmond on the main node to > gmetad and at the same time fooling gmond into thinking that the data > actually came from the original cluster node rather than from the main > node. You do this by spoofing the originating address of the packet that > is carrying the metric data. Is this correct?
If I've understood the code in trunk correctly, no spoofing happens at the IP level (if that's what you were suggesting). Instead, it works by creating a new message-type that includes the spoof host-name and IP address. Cheers, Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
