All, against all probability, but for reasonable historical reasons, we run windows based HPC applications. We also have large networks of similar function windows farms (e..g. web farms). We want to improve the visibility of the state of our estate, we like ganglia (rollups and all that), and want to pilot in some of our environments.
But as we all know, the windows agent is not fully performant, mostly for cygwin reasons. Is anyone working on a fully functional windows agent? Or a native agent? If we were to cheat, and create a windows agent that only produced the XML via the tcp interface, and not the udp niceness, can anyone give me an idea of how this will scale? This obviously moves more work to gmetad. Will gmetad poop with 5 data sources, 100? Can someone suggest something clever to get windows node producing ganglia data in a lightweight way? Hopefully lighter weight than remote WMI access which is.... well.... maybe someone says this is OK, but our wintel engineers hate the thought. kind regards, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information about Barclays Capital, please visit our web site at http://www.barcap.com. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the Barclays Group does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Although the Barclays Group operates anti-virus programmes, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Barclays Group. Replies to this email may be monitored by the Barclays Group for operational or business reasons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
