Re: [Ganglia-general] overriding the location variable

2002-10-08 Thread Doug Nordwall
Are we talking about the same location variable? This is the one that comes out of telnet machine 8649 and is set by the location parameter in /etc/gmond.conf. It's purpose appears to be for rack,rank, and plane :) On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 04:58 PM, Steven Wagner wrote: Doug Nordwall

Re: [Ganglia-general] overriding the location variable

2002-10-08 Thread Doug Nordwall
Hmm, after attending our last meeting on our cluster, I think I can do what I want using cfengine. On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 09:48 AM, Steven Wagner wrote: Doug Nordwall wrote: Are we talking about the same location variable? Yes. :)

Re: [Ganglia-general] Monitoring

2002-10-08 Thread matt massie
leif- i've been wanting to have a way to implement an active alerting mechanism for a while. the development team would love some help if you're willing to donate a little time. i have an idea for a quick and smart hack (i think). gmetad is already doing the hardest part of this work. here's

Re: [Ganglia-general] overriding the location variable

2002-10-08 Thread matt massie
doug- just a little history of the location tag. the force behind the web-frontend is Federico Sacerdoti (a great developer from the Grids and Clusters group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center). the NPACI Rocks cluster installation (http://rocks.npaci.edu/) automagically names each cluster

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 2.5.0 on Solaris 8

2002-10-08 Thread Steven Wagner
Andrew Gill wrote: I'm trying to get Ganglia to work on Solaris 8, and seem to be hitting my head against a wall. I can compile it without any problems, using gcc-3.2. However, the gmond binary exits immediately (return code 0) and no gmond process runs in the background. A 'truss' of gmond

Re: [Ganglia-general] overriding the location variable

2002-10-08 Thread Doug Nordwall
nod, we are not using rocks for this one (not my choice, I just work here, i won't go into it), so using cfnegine to handle the gmond.conf will be the only way i know. not so bad :) On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 11:56 AM, matt massie wrote: doug- just a little history of the location tag.