On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Rick Cobb <rc...@quantcast.com> wrote: > My thought > is that the fewer underlying services a monitoring system needs to work, the > more likely it is to work.
Absolutely, but dns itself is actually a good example of how introducing a dependency was necessary to make "a service" usable. The problem here is that if you don't have context most information are meaningless or possibly misleading and an ip imho doesn't qualify as context. When you do the lookup from the frontend the ip might have moved and this is actually not so far off depending on your infrastructure and the timeline you retain data for. Obviously if you maintain these associations elsewhere you're good, but otherwise being able to store "webXX" is pretty useful (and the reason I want more control over it). -- "Behind every great man there's a great backpack" - B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
