one additional bit: running gmetad with debug on yeild lots of normal rrd updates, followed by:
data_thread() couldn't parse the XML and data to RRD for [primary network] where [primary network] is the data source I'm having trouble with.... regards, -ryan On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Ryan Sweet wrote: > > Sorry if this mail is more appropriate to the users list. I'll carry it > over there if that turns out to be the case. As it is, I'm trying to use > the vast improvement that is 2.5.0 to get some time from management to > work on ganglia. > > I've got several small (<32 nodes) clusters of Linux systems, with freebsd > or Linux file servers that are working great with gmond. > > I'm running gmetad on a Linux 2.4.19 system (RH 7.1+updates). It sees > the clusters just fine, and the web front end makes great graphs of them, > etc.... > > I'm also using gmond to monitor our workstation network (mix of IRIX, > FreeBSD, Linux), with the same gmetad collecting the data; herein lies the > problem. > > With the old gmond (2.4.1) things mostly worked, though we often > had IRIX machines where gmond would just silently segfault and never be > heard from. We also had a problem with machines (also mostly the IRIX) > being marked as down from time to time when they (and their gmond) were > actually fine, nevertheless, it was usable, and mostly consistent. > > With 2.5.0, gmond is much more stable, and it has stopped marking live > hosts as dead, however on the workstation network (which happens to be the > same network as the gmetad server), the web frontend is showing graphs > that have large gaps in them. The values reported for "now" always > appear to be correct, but the values are graphed incorrectly. > > For an example (not live, just a dump to html), see > http://wwwx.atos-group.nl/admn/gmetad_ex/gmetad.html > > This particular graph is for an Linux system, but it is on the same > multi-cast channel as the IRIX systems.... > > So where should I begin to look? I suspect that it is actually a problem > with gmond, most likely on the IRIX systems, since gmetad and the web > front end are working great on the clusters. > > regards, > -Ryan > > -- Ryan Sweet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Atos Origin Engineering Services http://www.aoes.nl
