Thanks for joining the effort, Michael! It will be great to have your
depth of experience with ganglia to help shape the book.
-Matt
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Michael Perzl <mich...@perzl.org> wrote:
> **
> Hi Matt,
>
> I would definitely be interested in joining such an effort. Since I
> started using Ganglia for AIX and Linux on Power I have certainly given 25+
> presentations on Ganglia - certainly with a focus on AIX and IBM Power
> systems - but there is surely enough suitable "common" material available,
> mostly in PowerPoint presentations that I could chip in....
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
> On 12/01/2011 08:31 PM, Matt Massie wrote:
>
> There's an O'reilly editor who's interested in publishing a ~50-page eBook
> on ganglia.
>
> I have no doubt the ganglia community would benefit from a book covering
> topics like:
>
> - Ganglia's components and overall architecture
> - Typical deployment configurations including simple steps for
> verifying an installation (e.g. unicast/multicast, single cluster/multiple
> distributed clusters/datacenter)
> - Navigating and using the new web interface
> - Tips for extending ganglia's functionality (e.g. gmetric, modules)
> - Common integration points (e.g. Hadoop metrics, Nagios)
> - A simple step-by-step checklist for debugging common ganglia issues
> with pointers to our web site, mailing lists, irc channel, etc.
> - Supported platforms and core metrics
> - Scaling to clusters > 1000 nodes
>
> These are just ideas off the top of my head and not meant to final or
> comprehensive but meant to provide a list for discussion. Of course, let
> me know if there's topics the community would like to know more (or less)
> about. The purpose of the book is to serve as a first-read book for people
> new to ganglia. Keep in mind, for much of the book, we won't be starting
> from scratch. We already have a good amount of documentation that just
> needs to be organized and edited.
>
> I'll be happy to contribute time to make this eBook a reality; however,
> I want the book authors to be the leaders and experts in the ganglia
> community. I think it best we divide and conquer and write the book as a
> team. Who is interesting in helping write the book?
>
> -Matt
>
>
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