Re: [Ganglia-developers] Avg Load percentages on the web frontend.

2005-12-14 Thread Ian Cunningham
Jason, The page should explain that the load averages given are historic. I am not sure if the average of the 15 min average is meaningful for long periods of time. Also its possible that there should be values given for both current and historic. Thanks for your work, Ian Jason A. Smith wr

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Host spoofing for SNMP

2005-12-14 Thread Adesanya, Adeyemi
Hi There. I have been thinking about using Ganglia to monitor a broader range of networked devices for a while. Many of these systems do not run common OS platforms and communicate via the SNMP protocol. Last year I came up with a Ganglia 2.5.x hack that enabled a host to send gmetric updates

[Ganglia-developers] Avg Load percentages on the web frontend.

2005-12-14 Thread Jason A. Smith
The Avg Load percentages on the ganglia web frontend currently show the latest measured values for the grid/cluster. When looking at historical data, these numbers can be misleading when compared to the graphs right next to them. I created a patch which changes this behavior by using rrdtool to c