[Ganglia-general] New to ganglia and need Sysstat metrics to be collected .

2010-11-29 Thread saurabh verma
Hi Ganglians , I'm new to ganglia and I'm planning to graph most of the metrics collected using SADC utility or sysstat , By default ganglia provides some of these metrics but I'm not sure whether those will be sufficient for my requirement . Collecting these metrics for graphite seems to

Re: [Ganglia-general] newbie question [2] - customize ganglia-web templates

2010-11-29 Thread Jesse Becker
Your four steps below look correct to start a new template. On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:22, Chris Hunter chris.hun...@yale.edu wrote: The ganglia-web sub-directory templates/defaults has the files: cluster_extra.tpl  header-nobanner.tpl  images             show_node.tpl cluster_view.tpl  

Re: [Ganglia-general] newbie question - web frontend templates

2010-11-29 Thread Bostjan Skufca
We are not using TemplatePower anymore, and have moved to using the Dwoo package instead. I would be glad to know this before I started making customizations to frontend, just 3 weeks ago. I know, my fault, I did not ask about it :) Anyway, I seriously hope that Dwoo supports 'if' statement in

Re: [Ganglia-general] newbie question - web frontend templates

2010-11-29 Thread Chris Hunter
Besides Rocks are there any other custom templates generally available ? I really don't know _what_ we can do with templates. The _how_ part I could figure out from other custom templates. So, what are templates used for ? Thanks, Chris Hunter Yale University Jesse Becker wrote: There isn't

Re: [Ganglia-general] newbie question - web frontend templates

2010-11-29 Thread Jesse Becker
A custom template was created for the Job Monarch project that attempts to displace queue stats on cluster_view pages within ganglia. See https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/jobmonarch/wiki/Documentation/Screenshots for examples. The answer to what? is anything you'd like. The templates are HTML based,

[Ganglia-general] Fwd: Re: newbie question - web frontend templates

2010-11-29 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
Over the weekend I checked in Ganglia UI enhancements into the SVN branch. You can view a screencast with about 3/4 of new features here http://vuksan.com/ganglia-ui.html If you want to try it out you can check it out here

[Ganglia-general] New UI enhancements (was Re: Fwd: Re: newbie question - web frontend templates)

2010-11-29 Thread Rick Cobb
Nice work, Vladimir, and thanks for putting the video together so we can see all the features you've been working on. A couple of questions -- and maybe I should take this back to the developer list. One: the current (and your) implementation of both cluster host view waste a lot of vertical

Re: [Ganglia-general] New UI enhancements

2010-11-29 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
Answers are inline On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:27:18 -0800, Rick Cobb rick_c...@ieee.org wrote: A couple of questions -- and maybe I should take this back to the developer list. One: the current (and your) implementation of both cluster host view waste a lot of vertical space on the controls.

Re: [Ganglia-general] newbie question - web frontend templates

2010-11-29 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Chris: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Chris Hunter chris.hun...@yale.edu wrote: Besides Rocks are there any other custom templates generally available ? I really don't know _what_ we can do with templates. The _how_ part I could figure out from other custom templates. As far as I know

Re: [Ganglia-general] newbie question - web frontend templates

2010-11-29 Thread Bostjan Skufca
P.S. Any of your customizations could be contributed to the project generically? :) I thought about it and I would do it gladly, but it was/is a multidirection development process which started with a messy code, continued with code strips to enhance readability and modifications which suit my

Re: [Ganglia-general] Yet another Ganglia module for Varnish

2010-11-29 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Lars: This would be a great candidate to be contributed to our gmond_python_modules repo in GitHub: https://github.com/ganglia/gmond_python_modules Thanks! Bernard On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman l...@oddbit.com wrote: I was looking for a metrics module for gmond that

Re: [Ganglia-general] spoofed hosts in Ganglia

2010-11-29 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Bryan: Are you using unicast for your Ganglia setup? Perhaps this has something to do with send_metadata_interval? Another thing you can try out is the sFlow integration in trunk. hsflowd (which is the host daemon you install on your host) supports libvirt. There is a nice writeup here:

Re: [Ganglia-general] Unicast or Multicast

2010-11-29 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Arne: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Arne Brutschy arne.bruts...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I am using Ganglia for a cluster of ~70 nodes - single monitor, single, flat network. What's the recommended type of operation for this, unicast or multicast? What are the (dis)advantages of each mode? I