Thanks for volunteering, Frederiko!
Given the quality of the people volunteering to write this book so far, I
expect this book to be the *"this is the place to go if you consider
implementing Ganglia, regardless the scale of your implementation”* book.
:)
-Matt
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Costa, Frederiko <fco...@stanford.edu>wrote:
> Hello Michael,****
>
> ** **
>
> I’m actually interest in writing something. I can also contribute by
> translating the book to Portuguese, as a native speaker. ****
>
> ** **
>
> However, I’m afraid that my skills in Ganglia are not sufficient to write
> the book, but I believe there would have something that I can definitely
> help. I agree that we have scattered materials all over the Internet, but
> nothing I could really say “this is the place to go if you consider
> implementing Ganglia, regardless the scale of your implementation”.****
>
> ** **
>
> I’ll keep following the discussion on this matter and give my notes where
> I can help.****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks,****
>
> -fred****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Michael Perzl [mailto:mich...@perzl.org]
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:41 PM
> *To:* Matt Massie
> *Cc:* Ganglia Developers
> *Subject:* Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia
> eBook****
>
> ** **
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> I would definitely be interested in joining such an effort. Since I
> started using Ganglia for AIX and Linux on Power I have certainly given 25+
> presentations on Ganglia - certainly with a focus on AIX and IBM Power
> systems - but there is surely enough suitable "common" material available,
> mostly in PowerPoint presentations that I could chip in....
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> On 12/01/2011 08:31 PM, Matt Massie wrote: ****
>
> There's an O'reilly editor who's interested in publishing a ~50-page eBook
> on ganglia.****
>
> ** **
>
> I have no doubt the ganglia community would benefit from a book covering
> topics like:****
>
> - Ganglia's components and overall architecture****
> - Typical deployment configurations including simple steps for
> verifying an installation (e.g. unicast/multicast, single cluster/multiple
> distributed clusters/datacenter)****
> - Navigating and using the new web interface****
> - Tips for extending ganglia's functionality (e.g. gmetric, modules)***
> *
> - Common integration points (e.g. Hadoop metrics, Nagios)****
> - A simple step-by-step checklist for debugging common ganglia issues
> with pointers to our web site, mailing lists, irc channel, etc.****
> - Supported platforms and core metrics****
> - Scaling to clusters > 1000 nodes****
>
> These are just ideas off the top of my head and not meant to final or
> comprehensive but meant to provide a list for discussion. Of course, let
> me know if there's topics the community would like to know more (or less)
> about. The purpose of the book is to serve as a first-read book for people
> new to ganglia. Keep in mind, for much of the book, we won't be starting
> from scratch. We already have a good amount of documentation that just
> needs to be organized and edited.****
>
> ** **
>
> I'll be happy to contribute time to make this eBook a reality; however, I
> want the book authors to be the leaders and experts in the ganglia
> community. I think it best we divide and conquer and write the book as a
> team. Who is interesting in helping write the book?****
>
> ****
>
> -Matt****
>
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