marcia- here is another theory to throw out. if you ran gmetad in the default configuration, it will create round-robin databases that expect to be updated every 15 seconds. if after these databases where created, you changed the interval to be larger then you have a problem (unless you flush all the rrd databases a.k.a. rm -r /var/lib/ganglia/rrds). rrd requires a heartbeat interval which in gmetad is
heartbeat = 8*step; that means that if the database is not updated in 8*15 secs (120 secs) then it will save a "NaN" record. if greater the half of the records rrdtool averages over a "NaN" then a "NaN" is saved to the RRA (round-robin archive). unfortunately, changing the step in a rrdtool is not handled dynamically in gmetad. you might look at rrdtune commandline tool to tweak the databases if it's critical you keep the info. -matt Today, steven wagner wrote forth saying... > From: steven wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Marcia Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:28:22 -0700 > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Gmetad slowly collecting data > > I have no answers, only vaguely-informed statements and half-formed > questions (welcome to free software's version of tech support!). > > It is interesting to note that 4 hours = 16 real data points (at > 15-minute polling intervals). That's a suspiciously round number... > > However, if this was just a matter of the graphs not displaying because > there weren't enough interpolated data points to render a nice graph, I > would have expected them all to pop up at the same time... > > At this point, I would want to compare gmetad's raw XML output to the > output of the monitoring core it's polling. The polled monitoring core > should have a full metric payload. If it doesn't, then you've got some > kind of multicast problem involving that node. Compare its output to > the rest of the cluster, that may help. Otherwise, crank up the debug > level and your favorite packet sniffer... > > Assuming the monitoring core's OK, then the metadaemon's being funny. > What happens if you restart the metadaemon? What happens if you change > the polling interval? > > I shudder to recommend running gmetad with debug on for several hours > ... heck, I left it on for ten minutes once and it made me cry, but that > was on a few hundred nodes. :) Unfortunately, that may be the only > thing that can offer you clues as to why it's taking so long for new > nodes to pop up. > > gmetad should be walking straight through the <HOST> tags in the XML > parser. Maybe there's something keeping it from finishing... assuming > the new hosts are at the bottom? > > Just a few ideas for you. Good luck! > > Marcia Prescott wrote: > > I've been using ganglia for a couple of months. In > > this time it has been great. I set it up so that I > > would gather the information at longer intervals of 15 > > minutes between polls. This has been working great! > > > > A couple of days ago, I started gmond on 30 nodes of a > > cluster. I was already monitoring 3 of those nodes. > > The data has been slow to join the summary > > information. > > Could this be because I changed the polling intervals? > > > > > > I would think that the nodes that I added would all > > show up at the same time. Instead, a new node joins > > the summary information about every 4 hours. Why is > > this? It is about every four hours that graphs appear > > for the nodes, as well. > > > > I can see the graphical representation for all of the > > nodes, but they lead to a page with no collected data > > for the node. > > > > The XML data is sending the information for all of the > > nodes, but the Gmetad doesn't seem to be collecting > > the information as expected. Why does it take so long > > to collect the data? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Marcia Prescott > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > > _______________________________________________ > > Ganglia-general mailing list > > Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general >
