Yesterday, Federico Sacerdoti wrote forth saying...

> The LOCATION attribute in the HOST tag specifies where the host is 
> physically located in the cluster - Rack, Rank, and Plane. These are 
> specified in a 3D euclidean coordinate "x,y,z". This attribute enables 
> technicians (or more probably, you and I ;) to locate a malfunctioning 
> node in a large cluster quickly.

i think it's worth mentioning that having the LOCATION tag will allow
federico to make the compact view display match your rack assignments.  
way cool!  we've had problems where a circuit breaker kicked out on a 
rack of machines.  the problem would be obvious now when you see a column 
of dead machines in the compact view.

-matt


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