Re: [Ganglia-general] Noobie questions re: Ganglia

2011-03-03 Thread Rushton Martin
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Noobie questions re: Ganglia Hi Bill: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:26 AM, William Saxton william.sax...@oracle.com wrote: Hi all (potential) new ganglia user here, with a couple quick questions that I couldn't find the answers to via google. Welcome! 1

[Ganglia-general] Noobie questions re: Ganglia

2011-03-02 Thread William Saxton
Hi all (potential) new ganglia user here, with a couple quick questions that I couldn't find the answers to via google. 1) Where can I find how ganglia gathers information from a system? I'm specifically looking to compare how, for example, Solaris gathers its information (probably through

Re: [Ganglia-general] Noobie questions re: Ganglia

2011-03-02 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Bill: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:26 AM, William Saxton william.sax...@oracle.com wrote: Hi all (potential) new ganglia user here, with a couple quick questions that I couldn't find the answers to via google. Welcome! 1) Where can I find how ganglia gathers information from a system?  I'm

Re: [Ganglia-general] Noobie questions re: Ganglia

2011-03-02 Thread Jesse Becker
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:26, William Saxton william.sax...@oracle.com wrote: Hi all (potential) new ganglia user here, with a couple quick questions that I couldn't find the answers to via google. 1) Where can I find how ganglia gathers information from a system?  I'm specifically looking to

Re: [Ganglia-general] Noobie questions re: Ganglia

2011-03-02 Thread Seth Graham
On Mar 1, 2011, at 11:26 AM, William Saxton wrote: Hi all (potential) new ganglia user here, with a couple quick questions that I couldn't find the answers to via google. 1) Where can I find how ganglia gathers information from a system? Well, it's an open source project, so you can

Re: [Ganglia-general] Noobie questions re: Ganglia

2011-03-02 Thread Rick Cobb
On (1), look through the libganglia sources (part of the core installation). Most statistics are gathered as you would expect, but some are harder to get to than just reading /proc or kstat. Also, the Python and SFlow modules add all kinds of other collectors. For (2), yes, that can be done.