On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:48, Brad Nicholes<bnicho...@novell.com> wrote: >>>> On 7/16/2009 at 8:07 AM, in message <4a5f3430.20...@pocock.com.au>, Daniel > Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote: > >> >> I tried to attach this solution to the bug report, but I get this error: >> >> You did not enter a valid attachment number. >> >> >> Anyhow, this is a solution for bug 232: >> >> http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232 >> >> As a consequence of applying this patch: >> - whenever an RRD is created/updated, the hostname directory name will >> be converted to lowercase >> - any capitalization can be used with the `h' parameter to the web interface >> - whenever gmetad receives a hostname in the XML, it will use a >> non-case-sensitive comparison to decide if it already has data for that host >> - the XML emitted by gmetad will show the capitalization that was >> received in the XML, not the lowercase version >> >> Anyone applying this patch needs to rename all their hostname >> directories to lowercase. >> >> Regards, >> >> Daniel > > This patch seems reasonable to me. The only part that bothers me is the fact > that an upgrade from a previous version might break existing installs unless > they rename all of their rrd directories. That could be a problem for some > users that have a large number of monitored boxes.
Perhaps we should include a small script to help with this in the contrib/ directory? -- Jesse Becker GPG Fingerprint -- BD00 7AA4 4483 AFCC 82D0 2720 0083 0931 9A2B 06A2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
