Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia for data collection, not storage/graphing?

2010-12-09 Thread Bernard Li
Seth has described one method to go about it. I would also strongly recommend you take a look at gmetad-python which is a Python re-write of gmetad and the code exists in our development branch: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ganglia/browser/trunk/monitor-core/gmetad-python One of the cool thi

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia for data collection, not storage/graphing?

2010-12-09 Thread Seth Graham
Yes, because all of the ganglia data is stored in an xml format. You telnet to a gmetad or gmond process and get a dump of everything that daemon knows about. Makes it easy to write additional tools because xml parsers are a dime a dozen. It's fast enough to be used in a web page.. I use it fo

[Ganglia-general] Ganglia for data collection, not storage/graphing?

2010-12-09 Thread O G
Hello, Is Ganglia written in a way that let's one use its data gathering capabilities, but not data storage and graphing? For example, can one write some sort of Ganglia component or plugin that takes data collected from any of its built-in or other components and sends it somewhere else (a di