On Mar 1, 2011, at 11:26 AM, William Saxton wrote: > Hi all (potential) new ganglia user here, with a couple quick questions > that I couldn't find the answers to via google. > > 1) Where can I find how ganglia gathers information from a system?
Well, it's an open source project, so you can find it by cracking open the source files. The stuff you're interested in is in the "libmetrics" directroy. > 2) Does anyone have any experience with using ganglia, just as a backend > for storage of RRD data, but then using their own custom front-end? Ganglia is structured well enough that you can easily remove any piece you don't want. The web interface is completely optional.. if you can parse xml and run rrdtool, making your own frontend is trivial. Likewise, if all you need is the xml, you can eliminate the gmetad portion and query gmond directly. Last, gmond uses a module system for collecting system metrics, allowing you to strip out anything you don't want and build your data collection up from scratch (it is a little restrictive on payload size but other than that, the sky's the limit). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
