[Ganglia-general] Graphs not showing on Ganglia PHP Web Frontend

2004-05-24 Thread Adewale Idowu
Hi everyone, I installed Ganglia Monitoring Core using ganglia-monitor-core-2.5.6.tar.gz. gmond and gmetad daemons installed sucessfully and are currently running on my cluster which has two nodes. I also downloaded the PHP Web Frontend ganglia-webfrontend-2.5.5.tar.gz . I copied it to the this

[Ganglia-general] PHP security concerns?

2004-05-24 Thread Adesanya, Adeyemi
Hi There. Our Ganglia monitoring system has been growing in size and popularity and we would like to increase it's visibility by serving the frontend on a public web server. So far, the frontend has only been accessible from within our intranet or via ssh tunnel. We are seeking approval from o

RE: [Ganglia-general] Graphs not showing on Ganglia PHP Web Front end

2004-05-24 Thread Adesanya, Adeyemi
Hi Id. Check that your conf.php points to the correct location of the rrdtool executable. Also, one mistake I have made in the past was not realizing that rrd files are NOT cross-platform binaries. Stick to one OS in the case of your web server and gmetad. In the past I used a mix of Solaris an

Re: [Ganglia-general] PHP security concerns?

2004-05-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:18:35AM -0700, Adesanya, Adeyemi wrote: > > Hi There. > > Our Ganglia monitoring system has been growing in size and popularity > and we would like to increase it's visibility by serving the frontend > on a public web server. So far, the frontend has only been accessibl

RE: [Ganglia-general] Graphs not showing on Ganglia PHP Web Front end

2004-05-24 Thread Adewale Idowu
Hi Yemi, It works! My conf.php was not pointing to the correct path of rrdtool executable. I could see the graphs on the php web frontend after changing the rrdtool path path to the location of the rrdtool executable. Thanks, Id --- "Adesanya, Adeyemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Id. > >

RE: [Ganglia-general] PHP security concerns?

2004-05-24 Thread Adesanya, Adeyemi
Hi Brooks. After reading up on www.php.net , I have learned a little more. One of my colleagues expressed concerns about php because of possible automatic conversion of PHP forms to global variables. Here's an excerpt from the PHP docs explaining the dangers: -

RE: [Ganglia-general] PHP security concerns?

2004-05-24 Thread Matt Massie
yemi- you shouldn't have any problem running in safe mode.. except that you will need to explicitly state the path to the rrdtool binary in the "safe" configuration. otherwise, php will not allow it to be run. (i can't remember exactly how that is done but i've seen it bounced around the list).

Re: [Ganglia-general] PHP security concerns?

2004-05-24 Thread Adeyemi Adesanya
Great. Thanks for confirming. Yemi On 5/24/04 4:49 PM, "Matt Massie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yemi- > > you shouldn't have any problem running in safe mode.. except that you > will need to explicitly state the path to the rrdtool binary in the > "safe" configuration. otherwise, php wi