>>> On 11/10/2009 at 8:30 PM, in message <75fb37ae0911101930g55978c94u1a16c48fd5cc2...@mail.gmail.com>, Sylvester Steele <sylvesterste...@gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sylvester Steele <sylvesterste...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:19 PM > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] Getting started with developing a > C++ DSO module > To: Brad Nicholes <bnicho...@novell.com> > > >>> 1. Compile to .so >>> 2. Place compiled .so in the /usr/lib/ganglia folder >>> 3. Make appropriate changes to the gmond.conf file - so it can pickup >>> the the new .so and the mmodule in it >>> 4. Restart gmond >>> > >> It sounds like you are trying to build your module inside of the Ganglia > build environment. Since your module isn't part of the standard Ganglia > modules, you should be creating your own make file and building your module > outside of the Ganglia environment as a stand-alone build. Unfortunately I > don't have a good example of a stand-alone module build to point you to but > there may be others that have done this in the past for a C module. I did > this at one point a couple of years ago just to make sure that we had > everything in place to build a module outside of Ganglia, but I can't seem to > find the makefiles that I used. You might want to search back through the > develop mailing list to see if there were discussions about this. I know > that there was a module contribution about 6 months ago where they were > building their own C module. The code never made it into the repository but > it should still be on the mailing list somewhere. >> > > Oh ok. I'll see if I can find it in the mailing list archives. Will > the 4 steps I've listed above be enough to make Ganglia pickup my > module and start sending the metrics? >
Sure. As long as gmond can find the module and load it will all dependancies, things should be good. Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
