I've never seen this error before, but it sounds like maybe you have a /var/lock/subsys/gmond lock file lying around which is preventing the init script from starting gmond. If so, just delete that file and try again. I run gmond on my gmetad host...never a problem.
After a while, you'll learn to manipulate multicast ports and channels so that you can subdivide and merge clusters however you like. Once I got a better understanding of how it uses multicast, I was able to do all sorts of neat things with it. Still can't wait for the unicast version, though :-) Steve Gilbert Unix Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Foster, Scott (MS) Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:32 PM To: Bernard Li; Sean Dilda Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Ganglia-general] Multiple clusters single gmetad Thank you all for your help. It is working now, but of course I'm trying to make one more tweak to get it exactly as we want it. So I'm not sure if the following can be done. I am trying to get the headnode and other servers to show up in the server group, but since the headnode is running gmetad when I try to launch gmond I get a error message: gmond dead subsys locked. I'm not sure what that means. Basically the server group doesn't show up in ganglia like all the other groups. Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bernard Li Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:28 AM To: Foster, Scott (MS); Sean Dilda Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Ganglia-general] Multiple clusters single gmetad Hi: You would only need to list them ALL for redundancy - if you only list one node in the data_source, then if that node dies for whatever reason then gmetad will not be able to collect data from that subcluster. So I guess having at least 2 nodes is good for a large subcluster. I don't think anybody in their right mind would list all 1000 nodes in data_source ;-) Good luck. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Foster, Scott (MS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:49 > To: Bernard Li; Sean Dilda > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Ganglia-general] Multiple clusters single gmetad > > Ah that makes sense. > > But if I'm running gmond on each node in the subcluster do I > need to specify each of them as datasources? I'm not sure > that makes sense especially if I have 1000 nodes each running > gmond. I know I'm missing something here and I appreciate > all your continued help. > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernard Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:09 AM > To: Foster, Scott (MS); Sean Dilda > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Ganglia-general] Multiple clusters single gmetad > > > Hi Scott: > > The different ip addresses showing in gmetad.conf is not the > ip address of the server running gmetad but instead one of > the node (the headnode of that subgroup, if you may), which > runs gmond. > > Check the syntax of the data_source tag, the ip/hostname > listed there refers to one or all the nodes in that > subgroup/datasource. > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Foster, Scott (MS) > > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:14 > > To: Sean Dilda > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [Ganglia-general] Multiple clusters single gmetad > > > > How does that work with the gmetad having 3 different IP > addresses? > > My goal was to have one server running gmetad, rrd, and > apache. Do I > > have to have gmetad running on another system to break my > cluster into > > sub-clusters? > > > > Thanks for the earlier reply. I appreciate it. > > > > Scott > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sean Dilda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:14 PM > > To: Foster, Scott (MS) > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Multiple clusters single gmetad > > > > > > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 17:47, Foster, Scott (MS) wrote: > > > I've successfully setup ganglia (thanks to everyone on this > > list), but now I want to try and break out our cluster into smaller > > sub clusters. > > > 1) Production Nodes > > > 2) Remote Nodes > > > 3) Test Nodes > > > > > > I'm trying to do all this with one server running gmetad > > for all the nodes in the cluster regardless of their > different status. > > Is this even possible? > > > > > > I've been playing with different multicast addresses and > > xml addresses and haven't had much success. Has anyone ever tried > > this before? > > > > Yes, this is possible, I'm currently running ganglia like this. I > > have a different gmond.conf for each subcluster. > > The only thing that changes between the gmond.conf's is the > "name" and > > "mcast_channel", all other settings are the same. > > As for the gmetad.conf, here's the crucial part of it: > > > > data_source "Head Cluster" 300 10.10.1.19 data_source "Storage" 300 > > 10.10.1.1 data_source "Monitor" 300 localhost > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld > > Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=ick > > _______________________________________________ > > Ganglia-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=ick _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=ick _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
