RE: [Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] How do I plug in data without calling gmetric on the host?

2006-04-14 Thread Martin Knoblauch
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] How do I plug in data without calling gmetric on the host? Just chiming in on the desire for this: I think this would be great. Having the ability to make non-participating/gmond systems do some

[Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] How do I plug in data without calling gmetric on the host?

2006-04-11 Thread Alex Balk
Hi Egan, That's not possible at this point. It's an interesting idea, though. I'd go with pushing the data into gmond if you're doing unicast, though. That way when gmetad polls it, the data would get written out to the rrds without having to modify any gmetad code. If you're doing multicast,

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] How do I plug in data without calling gmetric on the host?

2006-04-11 Thread Alex Balk
Hola, Thanks for the correction. I was thinking along the lines of gmetric flags rather than functions. Still, I'm trying to add a cmdline/config option to make gmond appear to be reporting for a different host. After some code digging it seems to me that the receiving gmond determines the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] How do I plug in data without calling gmetric on the host?

2006-04-11 Thread matt massie
i think i misunderstood your question before.. sorry... in terms of supporting explicit setting of hostname/ip in the messages, it would require some work. given that there is a good demand for the feature i think i will make it my top priority when i have some time (hopefully pretty