For those that haven't seen it yet, check out the press release that Groundwork Open Source did for the Ganglia 3.1 release.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ganglia-31-provides-easy-customize/story.aspx?guid=%7B39B62CFF-06F1-40DC-A00F-3F4A5B8FFEB1%7D&dist=hppr Thanks to everybody that helped get Ganglia 3.1.0 out the door. Brad >>> On 7/30/2008 at 2:42 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brad Nicholes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Ganglia Project (http://ganglia.info) is pleased to announce the first > official release of Ganglia 3.1.0 The official tarball is available for > immediate download at: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43021&package_id=35280&r > > elease_id=616721 > > Please refer to http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes > for more information. > > The main features of this release are: > > * Introduction of a modular metric interface for C and Python (DSO > support) > * Scriptable metric module support with Python > * All pre-existing metrics (CPU, network, disk, memory, etc.) converted > to metric modules > * Introduction of new metric modules multicpu, multidisk and tcp_conn > status > * Modular frontend graph support > * Metric groups which can be viewed or hidden as desired > * Additional scaling capacity for systems with memory greater than 4TB > * Platform support for DragonFlyBSD > * Improved native metric support for Windows (Built with CygWin) > * Bug fixes and Enhancements > > Supported platforms: > > * Linux (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE/OpenSuSE) > * [Open]Solaris > * FreeBSD > * NetBSD > * OpenBSD > * DragonflyBSD > * Cygwin (no support for DSO yet) > * AIX (no support for DSO yet) > > Please read all the README, INSTALL and other available documentation > (http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net) as a lot of things have changed since > 3.0.7. Use good deployment practices when upgrading from 3.0.x to make sure > that you do not mix gmond 3.0 and 3.1 nodes in the same cluster (as defined > by a multicast address or unicast collector node). The protocol that > allows gmond nodes to communicate within the same cluster, has changed. > However the XML packets that are passed between gmond and gmetad have > remained compatible from 3.0.x to 3.1.x, allowing a 3.0.x gmetad to continue > > to pull data from a newer 3.1.x gmond cluster. > > For those who are interested in upgrading from a 3.0.x installation, your > current gmond and gmetad configuration files will need to be moved from > their > current location to /etc/ganglia. If you are attempting the upgrade via an > RPM, the RPM will automatically move your current configuration file to the > new location. However, for gmond, the 3.0.x conf file will not work. Please > use the patch file gmond-3.1.patch available at > http://www.ganglia.info/releases/ to patch your gmond.conf prior to > starting, otherwise gmond will fail to startup. > > There are several known issues with the current release which include the > following: > > * no support for C++ to create DSO modules > * no spoofing from modular metrics (use gmetric if spoofing is needed) > * race condition for tcpconn python metric module (affects gmond -m) > * libdir issues related to building for 64bit platforms > * known build issues for platforms: > - Darwin (AKA MacOS/X) > - HPUX > - Tru64 (AKA OSF/1) > - Irix > > Many of the above issues are being addressed and patches will be applied for > > the next minor release of Ganglia 3.1.x. In addition more information about > > the current official release, can be found on the Ganglia wiki at > http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes. > > > Ganglia Development Team > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
