Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2010-01-07 Thread Daniel Pocock
Jesse Becker wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:01, Ofer Inbar c...@a.org wrote: Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au wrote: and 3.2 can possibly go to a full XML format gmetad.conf with more advanced templates, etc. Please tell me that's not being considered? XML is a

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2010-01-07 Thread Seth Graham
Daniel Pocock wrote: - is it important for users to maintain the files manually, or will the focus shift to tools, web interface or config files generated from some other enterprise data source? I've been content with the existing file format for the 7 or so years I've been running

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Pocock
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:55:36AM -0500, Jesse Becker wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 03:46, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon care...@sajinet.com.pe wrote: My goal is to allow different sets of RRAs for different sources, while making sure the existing

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2010-01-06 Thread Jesse Becker
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:01, Ofer Inbar c...@a.org wrote: Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au wrote: and 3.2 can possibly go to a full XML format gmetad.conf with more advanced templates, etc. Please tell me that's not being considered? XML is a horrible lousy format for these kinds of

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2010-01-04 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:16:28PM +, Daniel Pocock wrote: I'm looking at extending the gmetad.conf format, while still making sure that it can read the existing config files. adding a new configuration option would be the easiest way to prevent any backward incompatible change which

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2010-01-04 Thread Jesse Becker
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 03:46, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon care...@sajinet.com.pe wrote: My goal is to allow different sets of RRAs for different sources, while making sure the existing file format remains valid. why do you want to have this? what is the use case for having different metric

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2010-01-04 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:55:36AM -0500, Jesse Becker wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 03:46, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon care...@sajinet.com.pe wrote: My goal is to allow different sets of RRAs for different sources, while making sure the existing file format remains valid. why do you want

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2009-12-30 Thread Rick Cobb
I'm definitely in favor of the pattern-oriented designs, and I do agree this is really great idea. I'm more interested in changing the RRAs per-metric than per-source, so any solution that only solved the per-source part of the problem would be less good. The script or callback solution

[Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2009-12-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
I'm looking at extending the gmetad.conf format, while still making sure that it can read the existing config files. There are two particular lines that interest me: RRAs RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:244 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:244 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:168:244 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:672:244 \

Re: [Ganglia-general] Extending the format of gmetad.conf

2009-12-28 Thread Jesse Becker
A few random thoughts inline below. Regardless of the specifics, I think this is a really great idea. On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 17:16, Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au wrote: I'm looking at extending the gmetad.conf format, while still making sure that it can read the existing config files.