BTW, I also managed to place the EXTRA_DATA DESC text in the <img title> field of the graph -- this will provide a "free" tooltip with the longer description of the metric when you hover on the graphs. However there seems to be a character limit (don't know off hand what it is) and the longer descriptions from the cpu metrics got truncated.
I think this is good enough for now -- thoughts? Cheers, Bernard On 2/8/08, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, Brad, when you get a chance, can you please put the multi_cpu > metrics under the cpu group? > > Thanks, > > Bernard > > On 2/8/08, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/7/08, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have modified the frontend such that the host metrics can be grouped > > > by GROUP provided by the EXTRA_DATA tag. > > > > > > Question is -- do we want this to be the default, or allow user to > > > choose whether to do the grouping or not? > > > > > > Metrics that do not belong to a group, will be put under a group > > > called "no_group". > > > > > > I modified ganglia.php such that EXTRA_DATA data can now be propagated > > > to the frontend -- this makes it possible for folks to arbitrarily > > > hide certain metrics by group. However, we probably need to think > > > about how we want to implement this -- i.e. can I save a setting where > > > I don't see certain metrics for all hosts, some hosts, etc...? > > > > The attached patch does 2 things: > > > > 1) Sort host metric graphs by group -- if a metric does not belong to > > any group, it will be displayed under "no_group" > > > > 2) Use the EXTRA_DATA TITLE field for the graph's title -- right now > > it doesn't do much as TITLE = NAME > > > > Comments welcome. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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
