On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 07:54 -0800, Federico Sacerdoti wrote: 
> On Feb 19, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Andrew Sapronov wrote:
> 
> > $telnet localhost 8652
> > /
> >
> > will return a last dump of information.
> >
> > Can I recieve all data for a certain period of time?
> > For example for the last hour or for december, 2004.
> > Where can I get information about all possible parameters.
> 
> You are going straight for the jugular! We have only a lossy method of 
> tracking metrics, so retrieving high-fidelity data for an hour long ago 
> is not possible.
I see, such restriction is applied because of  RRD usage. Then what do
you think for example about the filter

/my_cluster/some_host?filter=primary

which will return high-fidelity data for an hour step-by-step.
In addition i can change primary data period (rrd_helpers.c).

I tried to make this type of filter (vua using rrd_fetch), but you see
the gmetad design doesn't allow to add your own filters simply.
Could you advise me something?

>  I believe there is some work on using a real SQL 
> database to store history, however.
I suppose RRD is quite enough, but still it would be a good feature to change 
RDD parameters run-time not compile-time
and perhaps different parameters for different metrics.
> 
> The parameters to gmetad's port 8652 (interactive) are very simple:
> 
> Possibilities
> 1. Give a path name:
> /Alpha
> 
> will return the ganglia tree of the cluster named "Alpha" if there is 
> one.
> 
> /Alpha/compute-0-0
> 
> Will return the ganglia tree of a host 'compute-0-0' in cluster Alpha 
> if there is one.
You mentioned nothing about metrics.
Is this feature planned to be removed?

/Alpha/compute-0-0/some_metric 
It works.

I was discouraged when recieved the metrics and saw what part of the
message "<METRIC..." takes in contrast to (comparing with) DTD.
Why DTD is not used in the form of: <!DOCTYPE configuration SYSTEM
"URL">. Besides this way is recommended.
So large DTD invalidates the expediency of separate metric request. 

Andrew Sapronov J.


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