Re: [Ganglia-general] rrds data mirgation from 3.0.2 to 3.1.7 Ganglia

2010-09-21 Thread Ron Wellnitz
Hi Steve, the first (simple) idea ... After You have copy of the rrd-files, You have set up the rdd-file permissions for the gmetad user (e.g. nobody) ? You can also check the error_log from your web server, for errors like this. If this will not help, You can export (dump) your current data

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi Weston, gmond just looks at the low-level counters provided by the OS and has no awareness about its own resource usage. So, it will collect cpu-usage including its own cycles. Does this answer your question? Cheers Martin -- Martin

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Jim Rowan
On Sep 21, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Stevens, Weston J wrote: Obviously, if Ganglia is using up considerable resources, one would want to know. However, the purpose of Ganglia is to measure the performance of everything else, Ganglia can skew this data. Ideally and naturally, one would like to

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Jesse Becker
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 14:33, Stevens, Weston J weston.j.stev...@boeing.com wrote: Sure does thanks! I guess dig into the source code of the DSO modules to make it not recognize its own cycles? Bad idea? Good luck with that. :) I'm not aware of any monitoring tools that explicitly track

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread David Birdsong
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Stevens, Weston J weston.j.stev...@boeing.com wrote: Sure does thanks! I guess dig into the source code of the DSO modules to make it not recognize its own cycles? Bad idea? Obviously, if Ganglia is using up considerable resources, one would want to know.

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Stevens, Weston J
Yea I figured it would probably be a lot more trouble than it's worth, we don't live in a perfect world. Thanks -Original Message- From: David Birdsong [mailto:david.birds...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:56 AM To: Stevens, Weston J Cc: Martin Knoblauch;

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Seth Graham
On Sep 21, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Jesse Becker wrote: You can avoid this by using unicast to specifically designated collector gmonds (then having gmetad poll those for overall status). Or by enabling 'deaf' on machines that you don't want collecting data and are stuck on multicast for whatever

Re: [Ganglia-general] rrds data mirgation from 3.0.2 to 3.1.7 Ganglia

2010-09-21 Thread CHU, STEPHEN H (ATTSI)
Hi Ron, Yes all the permissions were changed to match nobody for gmetad. I'm now exploring the rrdtool dump and restore route and see if it will work. Will report after my experiment. Thanks for the suggestion. Steve -Original Message- From: Ron Wellnitz [mailto:ron.welln...@debeka.de]

Re: [Ganglia-general] rrds data mirgation from 3.0.2 to 3.1.7 Ganglia

2010-09-21 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Seth: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Seth Graham set...@fnal.gov wrote: I did something like this fairly recently, converting from a 32 bit OS to a 64 bit OS.. all the rrd's needed regenerated. I have attached a tar of the python scripts I used.. maybe they'll make life easier on

Re: [Ganglia-general] rrds data mirgation from 3.0.2 to 3.1.7 Ganglia

2010-09-21 Thread CHU, STEPHEN H (ATTSI)
Seth, Thanks for the scripts. Just FYI both servers are 64-bit OS. However, Server A is running RHEL 3 (3.0.2 gmetad) and Server B is running RHEL 5.3 (3.1.7 gmetad). I was in the process of writing a script to do the dump and restore for the experiement so JIT for your scripts to arrive. I'll

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Jamie Isaacs
You can monitor gmond with this DSO module; however, I feel that there are better things out there to monitor. http://code.google.com/p/gmond-python-modules/source/browse/trunk/procstat.py I know, put this on git...sheesh. -- Jamie Isaacs pdt...@gmail.com Message: 2 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010

[Ganglia-general] Ganglia 3.1.7 Solaris/Sparc Package?

2010-09-21 Thread Jonah Horowitz
Anyone have a pointer to a 3.1.7 solaris/sparc package? TIA, Jonah -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to

Re: [Ganglia-general] rrds data mirgation from 3.0.2 to 3.1.7 Ganglia

2010-09-21 Thread Jason A. Smith
FYI: ganglia-3.1.7/contrib/ganglia-rrd-modify.pl On 09/21/2010 04:32 PM, Bernard Li wrote: Hi Seth: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Seth Grahamset...@fnal.gov wrote: I did something like this fairly recently, converting from a 32 bit OS to a 64 bit OS.. all the rrd's needed

[Ganglia-general] GitHub repository policy -- Take 1

2010-09-21 Thread Bernard Li
Hi all: In case you haven't been to our GitHub repository lately, you should definitely check it out, we now have... 8 Gmond Python DSO modules 30+ Gmetric plugins and it's growing -- thanks to all who have contributed code! We now have our first discussion regarding policy for the repository.