On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:02:01PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if is possible to write a Python metric module that
> could replace the core set of metrics that gmond usually collects on the
> compute node, and instead grab the data from PCP that is running on the
> head node.

this looks like a perfect place to use gmetric with spoofing instead
(assuming that you are not loading the core metrics in gmond, or not
even running gmond at all if all you need is already coming from PCP)

> Are there any real differences between the metrics that are normally
> collected by gmond, and those user-defined metrics collected by a Python
> module?

starting with 3.1 all metrics are the same

Carlo

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