Older clusters using diskless provisioning are unicast. Newer clusters using diskfull provisioning are multicast on cluster subnet and unicast to the gmetad server.
We never defined different ports for different data_sources in gmetad.conf old 3.0.x gmetad server; default data_source polling of 15sec newer 3.1.x gmetad (virtual machine); data_source polling of 30sec default send_metric_interval everywhere Chris Hunter Yale University > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:22:02 -0800 > From: Bernard Li <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Multicast/Unicast Poll > To: Seth Graham <[email protected]> > Cc: Ganglia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Seth: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Seth Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Migrating to unicast eliminated the firewall issues, means only a select >> > few machines have to keep metrics in memory, and no more cross talk with >> > other groups. I never saw any solid evidence that ganglia was putting an >> > unfair load on systems, but it was easier to reconfigure than fight it. > > Since you guys are in HPC and are using unicast -- what > send_metadata_interval do you use? > > Would appreciate your input on the following thread over at > ganglia-developers: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05725.html > > Thanks, > > Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
