Re: [Ganglia-developers] enabling PHP module with package install

2014-08-06 Thread Alex Dean
On Aug 6, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.pro wrote: I've noticed that in some fresh installs where the PHP module or CGI is not already enabled, my own package, ganglia-web, is not enabling it either and the PHP source code is being served to clients without being

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Has anyone considered using php accelerators such as eaccelerator

2013-07-08 Thread Alex Dean
If anyone is so inclined, xdebug + kcachegrind is a pretty good combination for figuring out where PHP is spending its time. alex On Jul 8, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jesse Becker haw...@gmail.com wrote: I always figured that most of the time spent on rendering a Ganglia page is due to the many

Re: [Ganglia-developers] ganglia.info down

2012-11-05 Thread Alex Dean
On Nov 5, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Nicholas Satterly wrote: Looks ok to me and to isup... http://www.isup.me/ganglia.info/ --Nick. Looks ok from here now as well. -- LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2

2012-10-12 Thread Alex Dean
On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Paul Hewlett wrote: Hi Nick Modify gmond to write a special file /etc/ganglia/ec2.conf with the discovered instances and then modify gmetric to read that file – using a cmdline option perhaps This change should be lightweight enough for gmetric I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] UUID instead of hostname/XDR change

2012-08-22 Thread Alex Dean
Putting a UUID in a field called 'HOST' seems backwards-incompatible to me. You're changing the meaning of the HOST field, even if the data type remains the same. I'd favor reserving 'HOST' for a hostname, and adding a 'UUID' field to the XML for UUIDs. On Aug 22, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Daniel

Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-19 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 19, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Jeff Buchbinder wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jochen Hein joc...@jochen.org wrote: Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr writes: I would define a scaling factor or some other variable. I do want to steer away from having tool specific options unless

Re: [Ganglia-developers] jmxetric adapted to git, gmetric4j

2012-07-16 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 14, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Bernard Li wrote: I'm open to suggestions on what directory they should be placed in, but IMHO they should not be in the top level. Perhaps we could rename ganglia_contrib to ganglia_thirdparty and place those projects there? If we've got a large diversity of

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia libvirt and other virtualization technologies

2012-06-20 Thread Alex Dean
gweb allows downloading RRD data as either csv or json. Might that help? On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Simon G. wrote: I think I've found answer for my question. I've just read few files from source code of ganglia-web and as i can see they are reading RRD to draw everything so i think I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Trac Wiki, Bugzilla and GitHub

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Dean
The integration between github issues and the general github workflow (linking of issues to pull requests, etc) is pretty nice to work with. I think we'll have fewer problems with the bug-tracker being out of sync with the real state of the code if we use github. alex On May 11, 2012, at 7:44

Re: [Ganglia-developers] nearly 3.3.5...

2012-03-29 Thread Alex Dean
On Mar 29, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Bernard Li wrote: We found a memory leak in gmond which is considered a showstopper: http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=327 Off-topic, but I'm curious: Are gmond bugs being tracking in bugzilla, github, or both? signature.asc

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 3.3.3 tagged

2012-03-21 Thread Alex Dean
On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 21/03/2012 16:49, Jeff Buchbinder wrote: I found a small RPM packaging issue, which I corrected here: https://github.com/ganglia/monitor-core/commit/c25c4b31a874ab7105395eb712f5be8fc5a0539e I haven't changed the tagging or anything

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia 3.3.1 configure.in broken, 3.3.2 needed

2012-03-08 Thread Alex Dean
In case there's any confusion about which wiki to use: We're working on porting the information which is in the Trac wiki over to github. I think anyone with a github account can create or a page. https://github.com/ganglia/monitor-core/wiki https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/wiki Github

[Ganglia-developers] 'latest' release on sourceforge

2012-02-04 Thread Alex Dean
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ganglia/files/gweb/ says the latest release is 3.2.0. Can someone who has permissions update that link? alex -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Protocol Efficiency Ideas

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: It may be simple to export a simple hash table however you have to worry about encoding. For example we have had issues with XML export in gmond where if you sent metrics with e.g. or things would break since XML tags would break. So I'm

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Protocol Efficiency Ideas

2012-01-27 Thread Alex Dean
On Jan 27, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Im Root wrote: I believe that adding json would be a mistake. The reason is that when users install the main package there would be now a dependency on having json installed. It just adds to the complexity and helps to perpetuate RPM hell. I've had to deal

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gauging interest in writing a Ganglia eBook

2011-12-01 Thread Alex Dean
On Dec 1, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Matt Massie wrote: There's an O'reilly editor who's interested in publishing a ~50-page eBook on ganglia. I'd love to help out with documentation on the web frontend. alex -- All the data

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Upcoming Ganglia Web features

2011-11-29 Thread Alex Dean
? Vladimir On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Alex Dean wrote: On Nov 24, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: I just wrote up a blog post about upcoming Ganglia Web features http://ganglia.info/?p=464 If you have time and can help with writing documentation that would be greatly appreciated

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Investigating feasibility of moving repo to Github

2011-07-10 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: I have made an import of the monitor-core trunk into Github +1. I'm all for it. alex -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] Announcing Ganglia Web 2.0RC1

2011-06-22 Thread Alex Dean
On Jun 22, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Seth Graham wrote: On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Alex Dean wrote: I started off intending to allow per-view edit access, just like we allow per-cluster edit access for optional graphs. The complication is that each resource (a view or a cluster) in the ACL

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] Announcing Ganglia Web 2.0RC1

2011-06-09 Thread Alex Dean
On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Seth Graham wrote: On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Alex Dean wrote: Hi Seth. I'm just back from a week off the grid, and trying to get caught up on a mountain of electronic stuff. Here's my quick response. Please let me know if more explanation is required

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] Announcing Ganglia Web 2.0RC1

2011-06-08 Thread Alex Dean
Hi Seth. I'm just back from a week off the grid, and trying to get caught up on a mountain of electronic stuff. Here's my quick response. Please let me know if more explanation is required. If you want to allow a user to be able to edit views, you need to grant them edit permission on

[Ganglia-developers] who is using 'private clusters' feature?

2011-04-21 Thread Alex Dean
Hi all. We're working to provide some access controls for the new features in the upcoming 2.0 release of Ganglia Web. This will largely replace the existing 'private clusters' functionality. I'd like to hear from folks who are currently using this feature, to ensure that our replacement

Re: [Ganglia-developers] let Grid and Cluster Load graphs at the web 2.0 interface lock like at the old interface

2011-04-19 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 19, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Markus Köberl wrote: On Tuesday 19 April 2011, Alex Dean wrote: On Apr 19, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Markus Köberl wrote: { metric: cpu_num, color: 00FF00, label: Nodes, line_width: 2, type: line, DS: num, context: { cluster: true, meta: true } } This seems like

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-14 Thread Alex Dean
Here's what I've been working on: 1. Create a login.php script. This is protected by Apache authentication so you can use htpasswd, LDAP, or whatever you want for authentication. If you're able to access this page, your username + a shared secret is hashed stored in a cookie. The shared

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-12 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 11, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Jesse Becker wrote: I think that we should punt authentication to other systems/modules that are dedicated to doing so. Yes, I agree that's a good solution. Dumping the ganglia-specific private_clusters database in favor of authentication provided by Apache is

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-11 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 11, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: I am not sure what the right approach is. We could provide optional authentication but this may be better addressed by people implementing access controls in Apache ie. adding Basic auth to particular URLs. You could certainly easily

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-10 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Bernard Li wrote: Hi all: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr wrote: I spoke to Bernard and we are considering doing a code freeze of the Web 2.0 UI. I'd like to release it by the end of month so that people can start using it.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] $conf array

2011-02-26 Thread Alex Dean
Sounds great. Thanks for the feedback! alex On Feb 25, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: I see what you are saying. Sounds like a good plan. If you want to rename all $GLOBALS to $conf and user input to $user that would be cool :-).

Re: [Ganglia-developers] $conf array

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Dean
I created http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=299. Added the conf-conversion script patches for eval_config.php and graph.php. I'll continue to convert other scripts as time allows. alex On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Alex Dean wrote: I wrote a script to read

Re: [Ganglia-developers] $conf array

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Dean
?rev=2489#L8 Thanks, Vladimir On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:51:17 -0600, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: I created http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=299. Added the conf-conversion script patches for eval_config.php and graph.php. I'll continue to convert other

Re: [Ganglia-developers] $conf array

2011-02-24 Thread Alex Dean
23, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Jesse Becker haw...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 21:27, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: One of my gripes with the current PHP frontend code is how hard it can be to recall where which variables are configuration, which come from user input, and which

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] Fix libmetrics build on Mac OS X 10.5 and newer

2010-04-15 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Ryan Pavlik wrote: Hello all! Just getting started using Ganglia - I first tried to compile it on my Mac and ran into a compile issue which I was able to fix. Apparently in 10.5 and above, the kvm.h header and the /dev node it accesses have been removed. I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] ganglia using ports 1024?

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Dean
On Mar 24, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Brad Nicholes wrote: [Moved to the dev list] On 3/22/2010 at 7:49 AM, in message alpine.lrh.2.00.1003221347360.18...@beaker.phy.bris.ac.uk, Winnie Lacesso winnie.lace...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, I'm new to ganglia, but it looks wonderful. Platform is

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 3.0.7 release

2008-02-12 Thread Alex Dean
Jesse Becker wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 7:57 PM, Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys: I plan to check-in the following patch and release 3.0.7: -GANGLIA_RELEASE_NAME=Foss +GANGLIA_RELEASE_NAME=Fossett Nice touch. The following issues are fixed: 1) (now 0.00) 2) Show Hosts toggle

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Semi-serious bug in 3.0.6

2008-02-09 Thread Alex Dean
Bernard Li wrote: Hi Jesse: On 2/8/08, Jesse Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly different approaches. The r926 patch adds a new subroutine in functions.php. The one I just posted fixes an existing one. Take your pick. I actually think that using is_numeric() is a better

[Ganglia-developers] 3 quick patches, no more dependency on php-ctype

2008-02-08 Thread Alex Dean
...based on revision 940. 1. trunk-conf.patch * Some debugging code got left in conf.php from adding input filtering in revision 905. This patch removes that code. 2. trunk-float.patch * Change clean_float() to an is_numeric() call rather than a regular expression. Equivalent behavior

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 3 quick patches, no more dependency on php-ctype

2008-02-08 Thread Alex Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Alex: Not sure if GMail is to blame here, but I can't tell which patch is which since they're inlined. Perhaps you can send them in as attachments? Alternatively, send them in as separate threads. Wow. Sorry about that.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Semi-serious bug in 3.0.6

2008-02-08 Thread Alex Dean
Jesse Becker wrote: Here is a small patch against version 3.0.6 (*NOT* against trunk) that should fix the now 0.00 problem. It is simple enough: cut here- --- functions.php.orig Fri Dec 14 18:42:42 2007 +++ functions.php Fri Feb 8 22:47:39 2008 @@ -422,13 +422,8 @@

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR packet refactoring and additional metric metadata...

2007-12-08 Thread Alex Dean
Brad Nicholes wrote: On 12/5/2007 at 11:33 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Millar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2007 00:09:20 Brad Nicholes wrote: [...] METRIC NAME=swap_free VAL=188 TYPE=uint32 UNITS=KB TN=81296 TMAX=180 DMAX=0 SLOPE=both SOURCE=gmond

[Ganglia-developers] questions on metrics as python modules

2007-11-05 Thread Alex Dean
I've been following the discussion about moving all metrics to Python modules, and ceasing to use gmetric for custom metrics. I'm curious about what these metric modules will look like, and how gmond will expect them to be structured. (If that's been decided yet.) Are there any examples of