Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi Matt, I'm also happy to contribute to this, areas I can probably comment on: - using Ganglia in mixed environments (e.g. Windows + Linux + Solaris), as opposed to traditional clusters - using and supporting Ganglia in an enterprise - challenges in the enterprise (e.g. managing many gmond.conf

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Matt Massie
Thanks for stepping up, Alex! It will be great to help people get the most out of all the new features in the web frontend. -Matt On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Alex Dean wrote: > On Dec 1, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Matt Massie wrote: > > > There's an O'reilly editor who's interested in publishing a

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Alex Dean
On Dec 1, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Matt Massie wrote: > There's an O'reilly editor who's interested in publishing a ~50-page eBook on > ganglia. I'd love to help out with documentation on the web frontend. alex -- All the data

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Matt Massie
Thanks for volunteering, Frederiko! Given the quality of the people volunteering to write this book so far, I expect this book to be the *"this is the place to go if you consider implementing Ganglia, regardless the scale of your implementation”* book. :) -Matt On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM,

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Matt Massie
Thanks for joining the effort, Michael! It will be great to have your depth of experience with ganglia to help shape the book. -Matt On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Michael Perzl wrote: > ** > Hi Matt, > > I would definitely be interested in joining such an effort. Since I > started using Gan

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Costa, Frederiko
Hello Michael, I'm actually interest in writing something. I can also contribute by translating the book to Portuguese, as a native speaker. However, I'm afraid that my skills in Ganglia are not sufficient to write the book, but I believe there would have something that I can definitely help. I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Perzl
Hi Matt, I would definitely be interested in joining such an effort. Since I started using Ganglia for AIX and Linux on Power I have certainly given 25+ presentations on Ganglia - certainly with a focus on AIX and IBM Power systems - but there is surely enough suitable "common" material avail

[Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Matt Massie
There's an O'reilly editor who's interested in publishing a ~50-page eBook on ganglia. I have no doubt the ganglia community would benefit from a book covering topics like: - Ganglia's components and overall architecture - Typical deployment configurations including simple steps for verifyi