I want to add some additional info to the ganglia data stream. Things like system serial numbers and other values that will not change over a period of time.
I see gmetric has a -d option for "The lifetime in seconds of this metric" so I would assume for something like system serial number I would set that pretty high. Can anyone provide some additional explanation or detail for the -x (The maximum time in seconds between gmetric calls) and the -s (slope) options? Does the -x option determine how long between refreshes of this metric and thus I should put the call to this metric fron the cron system at a time interval less than this? Or am I misunderstanding what this option does exactly? As to the -s slope option an example of why/when this might be used would be most helpful as I don't see any additional info on this option so I am not understanding how it would be used. Thanks -- Steven A. DuChene
