Ryan Sweet wrote:
On 25 Sep 2002, Jason A. Smith wrote:
It would probably be nice to have in the future. I am just thinking in
terms of configuration and administration of a large cluster. It is
things a little more difficult for software installation. Having it in
one central config file, like gmetad might be easier.
I'll second this - most of our clusters and a good deal of our
workstations are nfsroot and share the same same gmond.conf. since this
info is primarily of use by gmetad, perhaps that is a better place to have
it anyway.
*steve resurfaces*
I think it would be nice if this mythical config file had a series of rules
based on some combination of the following:
Wildcards (hostname globbing)
Regexes
IP subnet (/8 to /32)
Explicit hostname/IP
[see, I have made it easy for you all to shoot down some of the above by
putting each one on its own line]
In other words, at the very least it should be possible to say:
location "Fictitious Building 101" {
*b101.mycompany.com
10.1.2.0/24
krieg10-1-2.mycompany.com
}
Because let's face it, everyone has a different naming scheme and
configuring each gmond individually gets boring after about the 15th
machine. And if you're trying to monitor a desktop environment (or a fluid
machine room environment), what's set up in one location today may not be
there in 60 days.
I don't think it's too unreasonable from a user standpoint.
From a development standpoint it is of course totally out of the question. :)
Except maybe IP address, which is what I *REALLY* need here in order to
implement this feature. Best of all it makes it almost automatic, since we
move around hosts more often than whole subnets. :)
We could also add other metadata ... "owner" ... "department" ... etc., as
long as it's in gmetad...
