[Ganglia-developers] gaps in gmetad graphs

2003-03-14 Thread matt massie
the gaps in the gmetad graphs are caused by *UNKNOWN* data. let's walk through this is figure out what is going on here is the relavent gmetad code...in ./gmetad/rrd_helpers.c RRD_create(). - begin code snip - /* Our heartbeat is twice the step interv

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Problems with the latest ganglia.

2003-03-14 Thread Federico Sacerdoti
On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 08:47 AM, Jason A. Smith wrote: I am seeing two major problems: First, what exactly is the purpose of the new GRID tag? It seems that it is a mandatory part of the new gmetad system, and more importantly the authority attribute is mandatory. Is this correct? It

[Ganglia-developers] My kingdom for a...

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Wagner
... real logging facility. You know. Specified in the config file. Defaults to "/var/log/gmetad". Spews timestamped error-and-above-level messages. Might help me figure out why my gmetad stopped working about 30 minutes ago, or why it comes right up when I restart it. Yet running it in ful

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Problems with the latest ganglia.

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Wagner
Jason A. Smith wrote: I do agree with you about making sure that the second gmetad has a polling interval set to be the same or greater than the interval in the gmetad that it is getting data from. What is a safe value to use here anyway? This does help, but not eliminate the problem. It looks

Re: [Ganglia-developers] again "gmond invisible to gstat"

2003-03-14 Thread John M Hicks
matt, Thank you for the quick response: gstat -a CLUSTER INFORMATION Name: This is my desktop machine Hosts: 0 Gexec Hosts: 0 Dead Hosts: 0 Localtime: Fri Mar 14 17:45:06 2003 There are no hosts up at this time -john On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, matt massie wrote: > john- > > what do you see when you

Re: [Ganglia-developers] again "gmond invisible to gstat"

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: john- what do you see when you run % gstat -a you might want to alias gstat to "gstat -a". right now, gstat only shows hosts running "gexec" unless you specify the -a flag. that behavior is very likely to change in the future. sorry for the hassle. How odd - he's n

Re: [Ganglia-developers] again "gmond invisible to gstat"

2003-03-14 Thread matt massie
john- what do you see when you run % gstat -a you might want to alias gstat to "gstat -a". right now, gstat only shows hosts running "gexec" unless you specify the -a flag. that behavior is very likely to change in the future. sorry for the hassle. -- matt Today, John M Hicks wrote forth

[Ganglia-developers] again "gmond invisible to gstat"

2003-03-14 Thread John M Hicks
Hi, On 2002-12-06 John Shedletsky wrote: Hello, I've been trying to set up Ganglia for some days now and I could really use some help. Right now, I've just got gmond running on a single computer. Gmond and gmetad start up fine, but after they do, shouldn't I be able to see a host under gstat

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Problems with the latest ganglia.

2003-03-14 Thread Jason A. Smith
Sorry about my first email, I didn't mean to imply that there was something wrong with your patch, just that it may have exposed another problem. I have been thinking about this more and I guess this bug was only exposed by my change to gmetad to remove the GRID tag from its xml output so it would

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Problems with the latest ganglia.

2003-03-14 Thread Jason A. Smith
I do agree with you about making sure that the second gmetad has a polling interval set to be the same or greater than the interval in the gmetad that it is getting data from. What is a safe value to use here anyway? This does help, but not eliminate the problem. It looks like I still get freque

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Problems with the latest ganglia.

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Wagner
Jason A. Smith wrote: Which cause the now famous gaps in the rrd graphs when looking at the hour resolution. The 2.5.2 version of gmetad does not have a problem getting data from gmetad with the grid tag removed, but 2.5.3 does so I can only assume it must be related to the new timestamp patch.

[Ganglia-developers] Problems with the latest ganglia.

2003-03-14 Thread Jason A. Smith
I am seeing two major problems: First, what exactly is the purpose of the new GRID tag? It seems that it is a mandatory part of the new gmetad system, and more importantly the authority attribute is mandatory. Is this correct? It appears that if you setup one gmetad to collect data from another