Al Chu <[email protected]> writes: > Hehe. It's funny you mention this. I had a request/comment on this > topic just last week. First, please take a look at my original post on > this for what I was thinking of supporting: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00710.html
For what it's worth, although that suggests you don't want sensor data from heterogeneous hosts, but that's one of my application. Specifically for out-of-band temperature data fed to ganglia, the ELOM, ILOM, and Supermicro values can be translated to consistent names, though I'm not currently doing that. > The work involved is somewhat deep Just as well I asked, then, before trying to dive in! I could probably help out, given instructions for part of the job, if it will partition. > (that I've naturally been putting > off, but it is now higher priority b/c it came as a request from someone > internal to my organization). As far as I can tell, it would take: > > A) re-work a lot of the config file parsing code to be able to take an > additional argument. Based on other people's requests, this would be > for all the config file options. It could be made easier if instead of > modifying all config file options to take the additional argument, we > made new config file options, like: I'd initially have thought of trying to have host-specific sections in the file, e.g. with the common `[<header name>]' style, but I doubt it matters from a user point of view, so it would be a question of what's easiest to program. _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
