Yes - I figured it out... I was thinking the mcast_port in the gmond.conf was where the gmetad process would look to get the XML info, but as you said below, it's just for sharing among the other nodes in that cluster/mcast port. So I have 4 data sources showing up on my grid and everyone is happy.
Thanks, Keith Poirier HPTC North America Hewlett-Packard Company 603.884.4257 -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Kidger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:52 PM To: Poirier, Keith; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [Ganglia-general] Questions about gmetad and multicast ports Keith, did you get your answer ? As I understand ganglia - the multicast port of gmond.conf is only used for groups of cluster nodes to share information using multicast. I never noramlly change the default gmetad opens an explicit port on the target node(s). I think that this is called 'xml_port' in gmond.conf. I never normally change the default. The think we do do is change the mcast_channel address in gmond.conf so that each cluster has a unique value. This prevents cross-talk when we have several clusters on the same ethernet switch. Yours, Daniel. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Bridewell St., Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK 0117 915 5505 ----------------------- www.quadrics.com -------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Poirier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 September 2003 18:04 > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: [Ganglia-general] Questions about gmetad and multicast ports > > > I have a cluster where I would like to divide is as follows: > > the datasources from gmetad.conf: > > data_source "Test Cluster - Compute nodes" cn1:8656 > data_source "Test Cluster - Login node" login1:8655 > data_source "Test Cluster - Admin nodes" admin1:8654 > data_source "Test Cluster - IO nodes" io1:8653 > > > The correspnding gmond.conf files on each of these nodes > would have the > mcast_port set to the same. > > mcast_port 8653 > > when I do this I get no data, but if I remove the port from the > gmetad.conf config file (data_source "Test Cluster - Compute > nodes" cn1) > It works... > > > I'm obviously misunderstanding something... Can anyone shed > some light? > > > > > > thanks, > -- > Keith Poirier > HPTC North America > Hewlett Packard Company > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general >
