Another thing building on the last message in this thread is that gmond
could have for example a list of ips to relay udp updates to, and a list of
ips that it should listen to updates from..
mcast_channel 239.2.11.71
# listen_udp 192.168.1.101
# send_udp 192.168.1.103 192.168.1.104 192.168.1.105
So in other words normally gmond would just come with a default
configuration that has an mcast_channel set, and it both sends to and
listens to that address. But if you comment that out or toggle it off in
some way, then listen_udp and send_udp could be set so that metrics get
relayed out to the send_udp ip addresses and the gmond listens on the ip
address or addresses specified..
That should give enough flexibility for people to architect their own gmond
cluster that relays out to wherever they need, using just unicast. Just be
sure to avoid 'loops' as you design/layout your gmond.conf's, with for
example a few gmonds relaying to each other endlessly. :) Would this work?
