Hey Matt,
How are you? It's been a while. I know I haven't been biggest contributor
to the Ganglia project lately but I still monitor the mailing lists and this
book sounds like a great idea. Count me in anywhere I can help.
On a slightly different note:
I have managed to carve out a little time over the past few weeks to get back
into a little Ganglia development. Since we are gauging interest, would
anybody be interested in a REST interface for Ganglia? I have worked up a POC
that allows a user to query metrics from gmetad through REST as well as pull
data and graphs directly from the RRD files. I still have to get permission
from my employer before I can contribute the REST code to the Ganglia project,
but before I go to that effort I just wanted to see if this is something that
the Ganglia community would be interested in.
Brad
>>> On 12/1/2011 at 12:31 PM, in message
<CABcEujsJET24+hhHyVqAQ48aj_4YjfZsimGz=vmw06mnu86...@mail.gmail.com>, Matt
Massie <m...@massie.us> 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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