Hi all, We are considering using libmetrics as a stand-alone library. In its current form, with the separate configure script, it looks like it would ideally suite our purposes. I noticed a recent discussion about dropping the separate configure script[1] and wanted to express our interest in keeping it. The discussion also mentioned licensing. It looks like all the elements of the library are now under the BSD license, is that correct? We would be looking to use a BSD type license as well so as not to discourage commercial use of our agent.
The application we are considering is the addition of performance metrics to the sFlow protocol[2]. We recently worked to include sFlow traffic monitoring in the Open vSwitch[3]. With an sFlow agent as part of the Xen stack, extending the range of statistics from purely network related, to network + system statistics would significantly enhance performance monitoring in virtual server/cloud computing environments. sFlow shares a similar XDR counter push over UDP model with ganglia and provides a scalable way of monitoring performance. Is there a document that describes the standard set of metrics in the library? I am looking for a document with formal/semi-formal definitions for each metric that I could cite when referencing metric names in an sFlow XDR structure[4]. Thanks, Peter [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05470.html [2] http://www.sflow.org/ [3] http://openvswitch.org/ [4] http://www.sflow.org/SFLOW-STRUCTS5.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
