Re: [Ganglia-developers] module metric spoofing (for IPMI module)

2008-01-24 Thread Matthias Blankenhaus
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Brad Nicholes wrote: > No, this is a bug. Ganglia_collection_group_send() should be using the > passed in 'now' parameter rather than redefining its own. By using the > passed in 'now' parameter, both collection and sending will be using the same > time interval which

Re: [Ganglia-developers] module metric spoofing (for IPMI module)

2008-01-24 Thread Brad Nicholes
No, this is a bug. Ganglia_collection_group_send() should be using the passed in 'now' parameter rather than redefining its own. By using the passed in 'now' parameter, both collection and sending will be using the same time interval which is defined during the main() iteration loop. As it

Re: [Ganglia-developers] module metric spoofing (for IPMI module)

2008-01-24 Thread Matthias Blankenhaus
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Brad Nicholes wrote: > I like your plan. It is easier to review smaller patches that deal with > specific parts of the overall feature, than it is to try to wrap your head > around one big patch. I would suggest that you go with the smaller patches. > > Brad > Excellent.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] module metric spoofing (for IPMI module)

2008-01-24 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 1/23/2008 at 11:23 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Blankenhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy ! > > As announced during our last meeting in SF I finally started to work on > this module. Came out that I need to extend gmond and the module area > a bit in order to support

[Ganglia-developers] module metric spoofing (for IPMI module)

2008-01-23 Thread Matthias Blankenhaus
Howdy ! As announced during our last meeting in SF I finally started to work on this module. Came out that I need to extend gmond and the module area a bit in order to support my IPMI module. Essentially, I need to be able to spoof metrics from DSO modules. I also need access to gmond's host l