[Ganglia-general] gmond invisible to gstat. HELP!

2002-12-06 Thread John Shedletsky
Hello, I've been trying to set up Ganglia for some days now and I could really use some help. Right now, I've just got gmond running on a single computer. Gmond and gmetad start up fine, but after they do, shouldn't I be able to see a host under gstat? I get nothing at all. I know there's som

[Ganglia-general] Bug in linux.c - bytes_out is completely bogus

2002-12-06 Thread Phil Radden
Apologies if this has been sent before; there's a rogue '==' instead of '=' (unusual to get it wrong that way around!) in linux.c, meaning that the stats for bytes_out are bogus. Regards, Phil --- ganglia-monitor-core-2.5.1/gmond/machines/linux.c.orig Fri Dec 6 15:08:46 2002 +++ ganglia-

Re: [Ganglia-general] Multiple 'clusters' within single gmond XML feed

2002-12-06 Thread Andreas Hirczy
Phil Radden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Thomas Davis wrote: > The problem is certainly the disk I/O though; I've managed to get the > monitoring up and running nicely onto a ramdisk, and the load does indeed > drop to zero as you suggest. > > So my next query: is there a g

Re: [Ganglia-general] Multiple 'clusters' within single gmond XML feed

2002-12-06 Thread Jason A. Smith
Another strategy that I use is to create a file big enough to hold my rrd files and mount it via the loopback device as my rrd filesystem. This has the effect of keeping your database files stored on your disk permanently, even when rebooting, but reduces the updating of the thousands of small rrd

[Ganglia-general] How to take a box out of a cluster?

2002-12-06 Thread Phil Radden
I wondered if anybody could help with an annoying situation I keep running in to! Due to a couple of teething problems setting this all up, I keep getting boxes coming up into the wrong multicast group. Unfortunately, once all the other boxes in that cluster have noticed the imposter, it seem

Re: [Ganglia-general] How to take a box out of a cluster?

2002-12-06 Thread Steven Wagner
2.5.1 should support the concept of DMAX for individual metrics. I think that extends to hosts, as well. Basically it's metric aging - if a metric hasn't been transmitted for X seconds, take it off the list. It's designed exactly for this type of thing - getting rid of hosts that have been de