[Ganglia-general] Help.

2009-11-12 Thread John Martyniak
Hi, Extremely new user, just trying to get Ganglia running on a CentOS 5 install. Followed the install procedures at (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ganglia-nagios-1/index.html ), and receive the following error: gmond: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/

Re: [Ganglia-general] Can I set these hosts in a cluster?

2009-11-12 Thread Jesse Becker
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 00:26, chifeng chif...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Can I set these hosts in a cluster? I using mutilcast mode and they belongs to different subnet. So long as the different hosts can send UDP and/or multicast packets to each other, it doesn't matter where on the network

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help.

2009-11-12 Thread Jesse Becker
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:12, John Martyniak j...@beforedawnsolutions.com wrote: Hi, Extremely new user, just trying to get Ganglia running on a CentOS 5 install. For CentOS systems, the best way is probably using the released RPMs. Followed the install procedures at

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help.

2009-11-12 Thread John Martyniak
Chris, Thanks for the offer. Yes I would definitely be interested. 3.1.3-1 is that development release or a stable release? Also what are the dependencies? -John On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Chris Johnson wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, John Martyniak wrote: I built some 3.1.3-1 RPMs if

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help.

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, John Martyniak wrote: I built some 3.1.3-1 RPMs if you're interested. They run fine here. Note, there are dependencies. I built on CentOS 5.3. Thanks Jesse. I saw that some RPMs existed, but they where for 3.0.7, and was hoping to use the latest stable, to be as

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help.

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, John Martyniak wrote: Oh gee, libconfuse, rrdtool and I have the perl-rrdtool in too. There might have been another but I vaguely remember just doing yum for it. I don't know that you need he perl-rdtool but I had it.These are the ones I'm running.

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help.

2009-11-12 Thread John Martyniak
did you add another repo to yum? Because mine (I didn't add any new repos), doesn't have rrd anything (yum list | grep rrd). I use gmail for domains, so everything should get through and if it doesn't it get put in the spam folder. -John On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Chris Johnson

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help.

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, John Martyniak wrote: I had to look around. I'll bundle up everything I had to hunt for. And I did add DAG's repo. did you add another repo to yum? Because mine (I didn't add any new repos), doesn't have rrd anything (yum list | grep rrd). I use gmail for

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help.

2009-11-12 Thread John Martyniak
Thanks Chris. I just added the DAG one also, and EPEL. -John On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, John Martyniak wrote: I had to look around. I'll bundle up everything I had to hunt for. And I did add DAG's repo. did you add another repo to

[Ganglia-general] rrdtool 1.4.x and gmetad 3.0.x

2009-11-12 Thread jeff
Hello all For various internal reasons within the company, we need to keep gmetad at 3.0.x on our Ganglia master'. We currently have rrdtool 1.2.x, but I see that 1.4.x is out. Are there any known issues with going from rrdtool 1.2.x to 1.4.x with an older gmetad version? If 1.4.x doesn't work,

[Ganglia-general] Help with adding a new metric and querying through port 8649

2009-11-12 Thread Yujun Wu
Hello, Could somebody give me some hint on this? I am trying to add a new metric into gmond through gmetric. It seems to work fine as the newly added metric (with name, value, etc) shows up in ganglia web page. However, when I query the node directly using telnet 8649, it is not there even when I

Re: [Ganglia-general] Can I set these hosts in a cluster?

2009-11-12 Thread chifeng
Hi Jesse, Thank you for your reply! This is very helpful to me. I got it, Unicast mode can do this. but I need to monitor about 400+ hosts, so mutilcast mode is better for me. I also found two documents to explain the gmond.conf http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/ganglia-quickstart

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond 3.1.2 not reporting any performancedata on AIX 5300-06-01

2009-11-12 Thread Li, Guosheng
Sorry this last message has been stuck in the moderation queue for long time as it was too large. But my problem has been resolved. Gmond could not start on AIX 5300-06-01, this has been proven to be an OS issue. Gmond starts fine after we upgraded OS away from this base level of technology level

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help with adding a new metric and querying through port 8649

2009-11-12 Thread Ofer Inbar
Yujun Wu yu...@phys.ufl.edu wrote: Could somebody give me some hint on this? I am trying to add a new metric into gmond through gmetric. It seems to work fine as the newly added metric (with name, value, etc) shows up in ganglia web page. However, when I query the node directly using telnet

[Ganglia-general] XML errors: XML_ParseBuffer() error at line 272: not well-formed(invalid token)

2009-11-12 Thread chifeng
Hi folks, I got a XML errors in Ganglia v3.1.2. It looks like this ticket: http://www.mail-archive.com/ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05054.html Here is my errors information: Nov 12 13:43:18 labmonitor /usr/local/ganglia/sbin/gmetad[14362]: Process XML (BJQA1): XML_ParseBuffer()

Re: [Ganglia-general] rrdtool 1.4.x and gmetad 3.0.x

2009-11-12 Thread Jesse Becker
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 18:42, jeff j...@attributor.com wrote: Hello all For various internal reasons within the company, we need to keep gmetad at 3.0.x on our Ganglia master'. We currently have rrdtool 1.2.x, but I see that 1.4.x is out. Are there any known issues with going from rrdtool

Re: [Ganglia-general] XML errors: XML_ParseBuffer() error at line 272: not well-formed(invalid token)

2009-11-12 Thread Bernard Li
Hi chifeng: Please provide us with the following information: - What OS, architecture - How did you build/install Ganglia - Number of nodes in your cluster - Unicast or Multicast - Are all gmonds and gmetad running 3.1.2? Thanks, Bernard On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:11 PM, chifeng

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia install instructions wiki link broken

2009-11-12 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Brad: Yes the links are broken. I have filed a ticket with SF.net and they have migrated those docs from docman to trac for us: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/5892 Please have a look at the last comment for the link to the new docs. Because the migration process is not

Re: [Ganglia-general] rrdtool 1.4.x and gmetad 3.0.x

2009-11-12 Thread Bernard Li
Hello: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Jesse Becker haw...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, 1.3.x added various madvise() improvements to avoid needless readahead calls.  I suspect these are included in 1.4.x as well.  Or are you refering to something else? RRDTool 1.4 includes RRDCacheD which would

Re: [Ganglia-general] XML errors: XML_ParseBuffer() error at line 272: not well-formed(invalid token)

2009-11-12 Thread chifeng
Hi Bernard, This is my Ganglia status. Thank you very much! 1, What OS, architecture This is my gmetadweb server [r...@labmonitor ~]# uname -a Linux labmonitor 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 30 12:55:19 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [r...@labmonitor ~]# more /etc/redhat-release CentOS