> if you hate multicast altogether for some reason, you can get > around that too. > > set every gmond that you have to be both "deaf" and "mute". > then every gmond running on every host will only know about > itself. then use gmetad to pull all the data for your > cluster together (gmetad uses a TCP connection to the data > port of each gmond). you will need to manually specify every > host in your cluster in the /etc/gmetad.conf as a data source. > > hope this helps. > > good luck! > -matt >
Matt, I just tried setting my gmond to both "deaf" and "mute". No joy....my gmetad only appears to get data from the gmond when "deaf" and "mute" are both off. Is anyone successfully using the technique described by Matt? I must be screwing up somewhere. ---- Yemi
