"...sflow metrics collection" -- but not all switches support sflow, how
can we cope with it even we want to use this approach?
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Rich <dr...@employees.org> wrote:
> Ganglia doesn't have any native way out of the box to collect interface
> metrics from network devices via. SNMP, although you could write a module
> for it (and supposedly a few people have done this already). You could also
> use the sflow metrics collection, although I haven't had much luck getting
> that working with my network devices.
>
> As a starting place check out the gmetric network modules:
> https://github.com/ganglia/gmond_python_modules/tree/master/network. I
> started trying to adapt the net iron module a while back but really wanted
> to rewrite it from the ground up to make it more flexible and ran out of
> time to work on it.
>
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 18:16, Sean Bigdatafun wrote:
>
> (From a newbie user)
>
> Ganglia can be used as server monitoring, which is a widely accepted fact.
> But I rarely hear people talk about using Ganglia to monitor network gear,
> is there any technical reason for that? -- I felt that Nagios, MRTG, Cacti
> are often used for network gear monitoring, but Gangia is rarely mentioned.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> --Sean
>
>
> --
>
> Dan Rich <dr...@employees.org> | http://www.employees.org/~drich/
>
> | "Step up to red alert!" "Are you sure,
> sir?
>
> | It means changing the bulb in the
> sign..."
>
> | - Red Dwarf (BBC)
>
>
>
--
--Sean
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