Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-21 Thread Bernard Li
On 9/20/07, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> There have been discussions earlier about getting each gmond to > > send a hostname > > >> rather that using the source address and reverse DNSing it on the > > headnode. > > > > > > I would definitely like this functionality. > > > >

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-20 Thread richard grevis
down and come back up randomly. > > -Paul > > -Original Message- > From: richard grevis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:11 PM > To: Paul Choi > Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-20 Thread Paul Choi
, September 20, 2007 5:11 PM To: Paul Choi Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname Are you sure it works fine Paul? In gmond, the index (key) for stored host data is the host IP address. If your hosts with multiple IP addresses only ever use one of

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-20 Thread richard grevis
g a > specific interface. > > -Paul > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > richard grevis > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:45 PM > To: Matt Cuttler > Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net >

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-20 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Andy Brody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd also really like this functionality. A slightly different but > related problem: it's been tremendously annoying that gmond on the > head > node doesn't know that data coming from different interfaces of a > multihomed machine is really just one

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-20 Thread Paul Choi
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of richard grevis Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:45 PM To: Matt Cuttler Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname Are you sure? As I remember it, the hostnames are generated by a reverse dns lookup o

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-20 Thread Andy Brody
I'd also really like this functionality. A slightly different but related problem: it's been tremendously annoying that gmond on the head node doesn't know that data coming from different interfaces of a multihomed machine is really just one machine. Having each gmond pass some unique per-host

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-20 Thread Richard Mohr
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 05:44 +0100, richard grevis wrote: > There have been discussions earlier about getting each gmond to send a > hostname > rather that using the source address and reverse DNSing it on the headnode. I would definitely like this functionality. At first, I thought maybe this

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-19 Thread richard grevis
Are you sure? As I remember it, the hostnames are generated by a reverse dns lookup on the headnode (or whichever node you poll). You can play by netcatting (nc) the headnode 8649 as well as the gmetad node 8651 and having a look. I think it is true that a reverse DNS mapping can't be specified i

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Choi
istinguish from eth0's IP... -Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Cuttler Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:30 PM To: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname Paul Choi wrote: > Hi, >

[Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Choi
Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to override hostnames of the reported client hosts? For example, I have a host named db02b. (10.1.5.7). And a virtual interface eth0:0 with 10.1.3.3. The IP 10.1.3.3 maps to another name du02. Right now, Ganglia shows the host as db02b. But I'd like to show it

Re: [Ganglia-general] Overriding hostname

2007-09-10 Thread Matt Cuttler
Paul Choi wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if there's a way to override hostnames of the reported > client hosts? > For example, > I have a host named db02b. (10.1.5.7). And a virtual interface eth0:0 > with 10.1.3.3. The IP 10.1.3.3 maps to another name du02. > > Right now, Ganglia shows the host