Debian policy insists on manpages for binaries. I ran 'help2man' on gmond, gmetric, and gstat, which converts 'program --help' output into manpages.
Here's the files, generated for 2.3.0, if you'd like to put them in the distribution. I was about to upload 2.3.0 into the Debian archive, but I'll wait for 2.3.1 to be released so that it can have the configuration file. -Preston -- Preston Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX Analyst Purdue University Physics Computer Network GPG Fingerprint: 6D27 5DAA F58D C42B 7A6B 8F48 04E4 2465 F353 03F6
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.27. .TH GMOND "1" "April 2002" "gmond 2.3.0" "User Commands" .SH NAME gmond \- manual page for gmond 2.3.0 .SH SYNOPSIS .B gmond [\fIOPTIONS\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION gmond 2.3.0 .SS "Purpose:" .IP The Ganglia Monitoring Daemon (gmond) listens to the cluster multicast channel, stores the data in-memory and when requested will output an XML description of the state of the cluster .TP \fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR Print help and exit .TP \fB\-V\fR \fB\-\-version\fR Print version and exit .TP \fB\-\-name\fR=\fISTRING\fR The name of your cluster reported in the XML (default='unspecified') .TP \fB\-cSTRING\fR \fB\-\-mcast_channel\fR=\fISTRING\fR Multicast channel to send/receive on (default='239.2.11.71') .TP \fB\-pINT\fR \fB\-\-mcast_port\fR=\fIINT\fR Multicast port to send/receive on (default=8649) .TP \fB\-iSTRING\fR \fB\-\-mcast_if\fR=\fISTRING\fR Network interface to multicast on (default='kernel decides') .TP \fB\-\-mcast_ttl\fR=\fIINT\fR Multicast Time-To-Live TTL (default=1) .TP \fB\-\-mcast_threads\fR=\fIINT\fR Number of multicast listening threads (default=2) .TP \fB\-xINT\fR \fB\-\-xml_port\fR=\fIINT\fR Port to answer XML requests on (default=8649) .TP \fB\-\-xml_threads\fR=\fIINT\fR Number of threads to answer XML requests (default=2) .TP \fB\-tSTRING\fR \fB\-\-trusted_host\fR=\fISTRING\fR A host (ip) to add to the trusted host list .TP \fB\-nINT\fR \fB\-\-num_nodes\fR=\fIINT\fR Estimation of the number of hosts in cluster (default=1024) .TP \fB\-uINT\fR \fB\-\-num_custom_metrics\fR=\fIINT\fR Estimation of the number of custom metrics (default=16) .TP \fB\-m\fR \fB\-\-mute\fR Only listen to multicast don't send data (default=off) .TP \fB\-d\fR \fB\-\-deaf\fR Only send multicast data don't listen (default=off) .TP \fB\-\-debug_level\fR=\fIINT\fR Don't daemonize and output debugging messages (default=0) .TP \fB\-\-no_setuid\fR Do NOT change the effective uid of gmond (default=off) .TP \fB\-\-setuid\fR=\fISTRING\fR Change the effective uid to match this username's (default='nobody') .TP \fB\-\-no_gexec\fR Don't list this host as available for gexec (default=off) .TP \fB\-\-all_trusted\fR Use carefully! Gmond will consider ALL hosts trusted (default=off) .SH "SEE ALSO" \&\fIgmetric\fR\|(1), \fIgstat\fR\|(1)
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.27. .TH GMETRIC "1" "April 2002" "gmetric 2.3.0" "User Commands" .SH NAME gmetric \- manual page for gmetric 2.3.0 .SH SYNOPSIS .B gmetric [\fIOPTIONS\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION gmetric 2.3.0 .SS "Purpose:" .IP The Ganglia Metric Client (gmetric) announces a metric value to all Ganglia Monitoring Daemons (gmonds) that are listening on the cluster multicast channel. .TP \fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR Print help and exit .TP \fB\-V\fR \fB\-\-version\fR Print version and exit .TP \fB\-nSTRING\fR \fB\-\-name\fR=\fISTRING\fR Name of the metric .TP \fB\-vSTRING\fR \fB\-\-value\fR=\fISTRING\fR Value of the metric .TP \fB\-tSTRING\fR \fB\-\-type\fR=\fISTRING\fR Either string|int8|uint8|int16|uint16|int32|uint32|float|double .TP \fB\-uSTRING\fR \fB\-\-units\fR=\fISTRING\fR Unit of measure for the value e.g. Kilobytes, Celcius .TP \fB\-cSTRING\fR \fB\-\-mcast_channel\fR=\fISTRING\fR Multicast channel to send/receive on (default='239.2.11.71') .TP \fB\-pINT\fR \fB\-\-mcast_port\fR=\fIINT\fR Multicast port to send/receive on (default=8649) .TP \fB\-iSTRING\fR \fB\-\-mcast_if\fR=\fISTRING\fR Network interface to multicast on e.g. 'eth1' (default='kernel decides') .TP \fB\-lINT\fR \fB\-\-mcast_ttl\fR=\fIINT\fR Multicast Time-To-Live (TTL) (default=1) .SH "SEE ALSO" \&\fIgmond\fR\|(1), \fIgstat\fR\|(1)
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.27. .TH GSTAT "1" "April 2002" "gstat 2.3.0" "User Commands" .SH NAME gstat \- manual page for gstat 2.3.0 .SH SYNOPSIS .B gstat [\fIOPTIONS\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION gstat 2.3.0 .SS "Purpose:" .IP The Ganglia Status Client (gstat) connects with a Ganglia Monitoring Daemon (gmond) and output a load-balanced list of cluster hosts .TP \fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR Print help and exit .TP \fB\-V\fR \fB\-\-version\fR Print version and exit .TP \fB\-a\fR \fB\-\-all\fR List all hosts. Not just hosts running gexec (default=off) .TP \fB\-d\fR \fB\-\-dead\fR Print only the hosts which are dead (default=off) .TP \fB\-m\fR \fB\-\-mpifile\fR Print a load-balanced mpifile (default=off) .TP \fB\-1\fR \fB\-\-single_line\fR Print host and information all on one line (default=off) .TP \fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-list\fR Print ONLY the host list (default=off) .TP \fB\-iSTRING\fR \fB\-\-gmond_ip\fR=\fISTRING\fR Specify the ip address of the gmond to query (default='127.0.0.1') .TP \fB\-pINT\fR \fB\-\-gmond_port\fR=\fIINT\fR Specify the gmond port to query (default=8649) .SH "SEE ALSO" \&\fIgmetric\fR\|(1), \fIgstat\fR\|(1)
