Hi Richard, On Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a swiss consultancy has implemented a native windows gmond [...]
Thanks for the announcement. Most HEP people run Linux clusters, but I know people that like Ganglia and run Windows machines; I'll forward the link. [...] > The final point is that as the extra metrics are binary coded, it should > be deployed in an all or nothing way per cluster. This is a shame. So one cannot simply run the nice gmond.exe on a WIndows machine and start monitoring it within an existing *nix-based ganglia framework. If I've understood this correctly, this reflects (what I feel is) one of the weaknesses of Ganglia at the moment: non-core data (e.g. gmetric) is treated as if it were second-class information. If other gmond-like daemons are to send other interesting metrics, then ganglia should move away from hard-coding the core metrics into the binary encoding (protocol.x). Instead, ganglia's encoding of data could be metric neutral; a UDP packet would contain multiple metrics, all, some or none of which could be "core". What are currently core metrics, as provided by gmond, could be identified by their names (i.e. have "well known" names). Is this in keeping with any current plans? Cheers, Paul.
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