Re: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2

2012-10-12 Thread Nicholas Satterly
rong/ > ARM Ltd > 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, CB1 9NJ > Tel: +44 (0)1223 405923 > skype: paul-at-arm > www.arm.com > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Alex Dean [mailto:a...@crackpot.org] > > Sent: 12 October 2012 15:56 > > To: ganglia-d

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2

2012-10-12 Thread Paul Hewlett
glia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2 > > > On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Paul Hewlett wrote: > > > > > Hi Nick > > > > Modify gmond to write a special file /etc/ganglia/ec2.conf with the > discovered instances and then modify gmetric to read that f

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2

2012-10-12 Thread Alex Dean
On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Paul Hewlett wrote: > > Hi Nick > > Modify gmond to write a special file /etc/ganglia/ec2.conf with the > discovered instances and then modify gmetric to read that file – using a > cmdline option perhaps > This change should be lightweight enough for gmetric I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2

2012-10-12 Thread Nicholas Satterly
; > ARM Ltd > > 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, CB1 9NJ > > Tel: +44 (0)1223 405923 > > skype: paul-at-arm > > www.arm.com > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Nicholas Satterly [mailto:nfsatte...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 10 October 20

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Hewlett
ubject: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2 Hi, I've been hacking on the ganglia gmond code to get the agent to auto-discover other servers in its cluster when running in EC2 [1]. It works a lot like the way elasticsearch does [2]. Does anyone have any suggestions on how

[Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2

2012-10-10 Thread Nicholas Satterly
Hi, I've been hacking on the ganglia gmond code to get the agent to auto-discover other servers in its cluster when running in EC2 [1]. It works a lot like the way elasticsearch does [2]. To get it to work, you add the following stanzas to the gmond.conf... /* Dynamic discovery for cloud environ