>>> On 5/5/2008 at 8:27 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brad Nicholes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On 5/4/2008 at 8:51 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlo > Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The metrics generated with gmetric are being tagged in the XML as coming > from >> gmond instead. >> > > I'll take a look at this but the real question is "do we care?". One of the > items that was brought up back when we were discussing the wish list is that > a metric is a metric no matter where it came from. Other than being able > differentiate a real metric from a gmetric in the web front end, the XML > SOURCE tag really has no meaning. And I'm not sure that being able to tell > the difference between a metric vs. a gmetric in the web front end is > valuable information to the user either. My vote would be to remove the > gmetric display section from the web front end and just display everything as > a metric. >
Since the XDR packet refactoring, there isn't a difference between a metric and a gmetric (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=474C506F.6720.00AC.0%40novell.com). Everything is just a metric. Before the XDR refactoring, a gmetric was a completely different type of XDR packet. Now, everything is reported through two packet types, a metric metadata packet or a metric value packet. The SOURCE attribute in the XML is just there to make sure that an older Gmetad could read the newer XML. I don't believe there is any need to differentiate between the two types of metrics and I think that the gmetric link in the front end should be removed. If there is such a need, the source could be added back as <EXTRA_DATA> on the metric. Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
