Thanks Rich. This got me thinking a little about how the same thing might be
done only in a more generic way rather than just sequentially numbered metrics.
I am wondering if, rather than looping through numbers, we actually tried to
do some pattern matching over the known metrics. For every known metric that
matches a metric pattern found in a collection_group, the metric name is
constructed and the metric is added using the add_metric_series() function. Of
course it would also have to do some kind of substitution for the metric title
as well. This could simplify some of the metric configurations.
Brad
>>> On 8/26/2008 at 8:08 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Paul
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did a hack to allow a single config file to work across all of my
> hosts, even though I needed mod_multicpu and had different numbers of
> processors on different machines.
>
> The hack I did was as follows:
>
> When gmond found a metric name which contained one or more (#) pound
> signs, I converted the metric name to a sprintf string, as follows:
>
>
> cpu_###_idle => cpu_%03d_idle
> cpu_#_idle => cpu_%d_idle.
>
> I then iteratively applied the config in question, stopping the first
> time I got an error.
>
> This would, of course, work only when the variants were numbered, zero
> based, and consecutive, but it is very useful to me.
>
> What I added to gmond.c was:
>> +const char *make_fmt(const char * const src_in) {
>> + char *pos=strchr(src_in,'#');
>> + if(!pos)
>> + return 0;
>> +
>> + {
>> + const char *src = src_in;
>> + static char fmt[1024];
>> + static char * const end = fmt+sizeof(fmt)-1;
>> + char *dst=fmt;
>> + while(src!=pos && dst!=end) {
>> + if((*dst++ = *src++)=='%' && dst!=end)
>> + *dst++='%';
>> + }
>> + if(dst!=end)
>> + *dst++='%';
>> + if(dst!=end)
>> + *dst++='0';
>> + {
>> + int pad=1;
>> + while(*++src == '#')
>> + ++pad;
>> + dst+=snprintf(dst,end-dst,"%d",pad);
>> + }
>> + if(dst!=end)
>> + *dst++='d';
>> + while(dst!=end) {
>> + switch(*dst++ = *src++) {
>> + case 0:
>> + return fmt;
>> + case '#':
>> + err_quit(">1 series of '#' in \"%s\"",src_in);
>> + case '%':
>> + if(dst!=end)
>> + *dst++='%';
>> + break;
>> + default:
>> + break;
>> + }
>> + }
>> + err_quit("fmt string for \"%s\" too long",src_in);
>> + }
>> + /* not reached */
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +double add_metric_series(
>> + Ganglia_collection_group *group,
>> + const char *name,
>> + const char *title,
>> + float value_threshold
>> +)
>> +{
>> + const char *fmt=make_fmt(name);
>> + if(!fmt)
>> + return add_metric(group,name,title,value_threshold);
>> + {
>> + char dname[strlen(fmt)+16];
>> + size_t idx;
>> + double res=0.0;
>> + for(idx=0;idx<64;idx++) {
>> + snprintf(dname,sizeof(dname),fmt,idx);
>> + // the first time through, we do not precheck the metric, so that
>> + // if a series does not yield ANY valid metrics, we get an error.
>> + if(idx && !apr_hash_get( metric_callbacks, dname, APR_HASH_KEY_STRING
> ))
>> + break;
>> + res+=add_metric(group,dname,title,value_threshold);
>> + }
>> + return res;
>> + }
>> +}
>
> and I changed the call to add_metric to call add_metric_series instead.
>
> Sorry for no more reasonable patch, but I made other changes, so can't
> do a CVS diff.
>
> This might, however, be useful to somebody else, so I thought I'd pass
> the idea around.
>
> Regards,
> Rich
>
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