On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 16:15, matt massie wrote: > we may do that in the future if gmetad grows into a crazy beast of a > daemon (which i don't see happening but...). for now, it's only a single > 500k binary (linux ELF). which i don't think necessitates a separate > package just yet. of course, it will not be setup to run by default, but > will be there to easily activate if you want a host to start collecting > and saving data (using chkconfig).
I am glad to hear that it will not be on by default, not so much for performance issues, but security since it is a daemon listening on a port, even if it does have its own internal list of allowed hosts that it will respond to. I am thinking more along the lines of package customization for local deployment. For example, I would download the src rpm, patch or edit the config files or anything else I had to, then build and install the binary packages on our farm. Being able to do this from a single src rpm would simplify things, especially when it comes to configuration. Since I am thinking about this, how is the new "location" item used? Is that a configuration option that has to go on each node's local gmond.conf file or can it be configured in a single place, like gmetad's config file to do something like equate hostname with location? ~Jason -- /------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jason A. Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Atlas Computing Facility, Bldg. 510M Phone: (631)344-4226 | | Brookhaven National Lab, P.O. Box 5000 Fax: (631)344-7616 | | Upton, NY 11973-5000 | \------------------------------------------------------------------/
