Bruce,
The idea is to use the "LOCATION" attribute of the <HOST> metric to
organize the nodes into 'racks' which correspond to physical racks on
the floor.
If you have no location information, a rack is assumed to be 25
consecutive nodes. See functions.php:360 in physical_racks(). The the
number of RACK columns is set by the $hostcols variable in
physical_view.php on line 89. So with columns=4 you will see 4 racks on
line, then 4 on the next line, etc. It has worked fine for several
releases.
The 25 node rack for unknown locations is hardcoded, which could be
changed, but the idea is to have the page mimic what is on your machine
room floor. The 25 figure is a guess. Also, the LOCATION attribute is
broken for the 3.0 version of gmond, but the fix shouldn't be hard.
If you want a view with as many nodes on it as you can fit on the page,
then your way makes sense. Perhaps we could call it a "gang" view or
something.
-Federico
On Apr 26, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Bruce Schwartz wrote:
I haven't heard any other complaints about it so maybe it is just
me... but on the physical view I get one single column of host info.
I'm not using racks and ranks so maybe that is the problem...
anyway... I've attached a patch that make the physical view actually
honor the column setting. Let me know if it gives you any problems.
-Bruce
<patch.web.phy>
Federico
Rocks Cluster Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center, CA
