[Ganglia-general] revisiting bogus spikes

2011-04-27 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
Once again I've been asked to make Ganglia usable on Linux hosts with the Broadcom NIC with the 32-bit byte counters. E.g., HP "Proliant" 580 G5, a rather popular machine where Ganglia doesn't work out of the box. So I'm trying to understand ganglia-3.1.7/libmetrics/linux/metrics.c again. In upd

Re: [Ganglia-general] two identical hosts, one is having trouble with gmond

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Bravo
I am quite happy to report that setting send_metadata_interval to a non-zero value (slightly less than cleanup_threshold value) has completely solved the problem Thanks once again On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Michael Bravo wrote: > OMG, send_metadata_interval wasn't set > 0 > > that *looks*

Re: [Ganglia-general] two identical hosts, one is having trouble with gmond

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Bravo
OMG, send_metadata_interval wasn't set > 0 that *looks* like the very likely culprit and that missed obvious thing I was talking about I will try setting this right and se if it fixes the problem. If not, I will post gmond.conf, and if yes, I will report back to mark the problem as solved. Thank

Re: [Ganglia-general] two identical hosts, one is having trouble with gmond

2011-04-27 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Michael: Can you please post gmond.conf (post a diff from stock config if it's too big or to pastebin.com) of one of the host and of the collector? Also, did you set send_metadata_interval > 0? Cheers, Bernard On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Michael Bravo wrote: > I think now I have obse

Re: [Ganglia-general] two identical hosts, one is having trouble with gmond

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Bravo
I think now I have observed the system for a few hours more, I can generalize a bit, but as to 'df -h' output - it is identical, save for a minimal difference in space actually free/used. However, let me describe the setup in more detail. There are 5 hosts in one datacenter, which comprise the cl

Re: [Ganglia-general] two identical hosts, one is having trouble with gmond

2011-04-27 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Michael: You can try looking at the XML representation of the metric data from each of your gmonds to figure out what's different between them. You can accomplish this by doing: nc localhost 8649 (assuming you are using the default gmond port of 8649) This should spit out all the metric data

Re: [Ganglia-general] raw data vs. averages, percentages, etc.

2011-04-27 Thread Hiller, Dean (Contractor)
Sweet, thanks for the info! Dean From: cob...@gmail.com [mailto:cob...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rick Cobb Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:08 PM To: Hiller, Dean (Contractor) Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] raw data vs. averages, percentages, etc. (so

Re: [Ganglia-general] two identical hosts, one is having trouble with gmond

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Bravo
More precisely, some metrics seem to be collected, and periodically sent, such as metric 'disk_free' being collected now Counting device /dev/root (6.21 %) For all disks: 142.835 GB total, 133.963 GB free for users. metric 'disk_free' has value_threshold 1.00 metric 'par

[Ganglia-general] ganglia-3.1.7 nexenta multicast issue

2011-04-27 Thread Nick Gresham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I've been attempting to get 'ganglia-3.1.7' 'gmond' working correctly on a Nexenta NCP 3.0.1 host, having compiled matters from source. The scenario is that the Nexenta hosts's 'gmond' would multi-cast to our collector 'gmond' on another h

[Ganglia-general] two identical hosts, one is having trouble with gmond

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Bravo
Hello, here is a strange occurence. I have two (infact, more than two, but let's consider just a pair) identical servers running identical setups - identical OS, identical gmond with identical config files, identical disks, identical everything. However, one of those servers is perfectly well, and