>>> On 2/5/2009 at 11:52 PM, in message <c5b11e41.2f69%rc...@quantcast.com>, >>> Rick Cobb <rc...@quantcast.com> wrote: > I'm finding this discussion a bit ironic; in my environment, we're strongly > considering pulling all of the naming out of gmond & gmetad, and only doing > the hostname lookups in the PHP front-end. That way there's no need to deal > with DNS or host naming issues in most of the cluster(s) we monitor at all. > I suppose there's some risk in situations where the same virtual IP is bound > on many machines, but mcast_if should take care of that. My thought is that > the fewer underlying services a monitoring system needs to work, the more > likely it is to work. >
This sounds like an interesting idea. It would be very easy to set a configuration flag for gmond to just turn off all DNS look ups. The lookups could then happen in either gmetad or the front end. Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
