Forwarding this to ganglia-developers since this is a more -devel related discussion. Also can get spike's opinions in ;-)
Cheers, Bernard ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bernard Li <bern...@vanhpc.org> Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Another interface for Ganglia stats To: Vladimir Vuksan <vli...@veus.hr> Cc: ganglia-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net +1 on the general idea, not sure about the implementation though. Let's get Spike into this discussion -- yes Spike, I'm calling you out! ;-) Cheers, Bernard On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Vladimir Vuksan <vli...@veus.hr> wrote: > There have been some tweets that someone was working on a REST interface > for Ganglia. At first I thought it wasn't such a big deal but I think that > adding a simplistic interface to Ganglia would be a nice addition ie. > something like > >> telnet ganglia 8653 > METRIC web1 load_one > > Which would echo out the current value for load_one. That way you can > avoid parsing out the XML to get those values. I think for large sites it > makes a lot of sense. Granted there are "workarounds" that could be > implemented and people have. > > > I believe all that needs to be done is add a function similar to > > process_tcp_accept_channel > > which doesn't dump out the whole XML but selective value. I would put it > on a separate port call it tcp_get_metric. If you were so inclined you > could even make it a HTTP interface. > > Thoughts ? > > Vladimir > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > ganglia-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
