Instead of cluttering the main ganglia program with this, it might be better to write a separate application that periodically polls a gmond/gmetad and parses the XML data to look for potential problems.
In my opinion, this is the proper place since it would act more like a client tool that uses the collected data, similar to the webfrontend viewer. ~Jason On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:33, Adesanya, Adeyemi wrote: > Me too! > > ---- > Yemi > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Schmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:48 AM > > To: Leif Nixon > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Sending alert > > > > if voting helps.. I vote yes! :) > > > > Leif Nixon wrote: > > > Sébastien Georget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > >> I'd like to know if there are existing plans/plugins to enable > > >>ganglia to send an alert (mail) when a node goes down or > > when a metric > > >>(disk space for instance) drops behind a given level. > > > > > > > > > I did some hacking back in, oh, Ganglia 2.4 or something, to add > > > monitoring capabilities to gmetad, but my patch didn't make it into > > > the source tree (pending Ganglia 3). > > > > > > I still think this is an important missing feature to make Ganglia > > > really useful in day-to-day system administration. > > > > > > > -- > > Peter Schmid > > Logic Technology Inc. > > GE Global Research Center > > ITMS Engineering Systems Group > > (518) 387-6903 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Ganglia-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&opÌk > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general >
