[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've been looking at how we currently deploy Ganglia configuration files > in our organisation, and whether the process can be improved.
<snip> > - allowing a central configuration server to override some, but not all, > of the values specified in the config file This is possible with cfengine, and other configuration management tools. I have several groups of machines, and different gmond.conf and gmetad.conf files are distributed to the various systems based on that group membership. While not exactly autoconfiguration, nor is it a Ganglia-only solution, it does work quite well. > One issue that concerns me is the possibility of all nodes starting up > together and overloading the configuration server with requests - > whatever scheme was used would have to be able to deal with this > scalability issue in a sensible way. CFegnine has a number of simple, but very serviceable, features to prevent overwhelming a central server. There is also a similar program called "Puppet" with many similarities to cfengine. I believe that it has been adopted by Fedora/Red Hat as a supported management platform. -- Jesse Becker GPG Fingerprint -- BD00 7AA4 4483 AFCC 82D0 2720 0083 0931 9A2B 06A2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers