Hi: So gmond starts and Gmetad starts with the following error in the logs:
Here is the error I get in /var/log/messages: Nov 23 16:05:25 hucosm gmond: gmond shutdown succeeded Nov 23 16:07:06 hucosm gmond: gmond startup succeeded Nov 23 16:07:11 hucosm gmetad: Source: [COSM Cluster, step 15] has 1 sources Nov 23 16:07:11 hucosm gmetad: 137.xxx.xxx.xxx Nov 23 16:07:11 hucosm gmetad: Sources are ... Nov 23 16:07:11 hucosm gmetad: Data thread -1270989904 is monitoring [COSM Cluster] data source Nov 23 16:07:11 hucosm gmetad: 137.xxx.xxx.xxx Nov 23 16:07:11 hucosm gmetad: Process XML (COSM Cluster): XML_ParseBuffer() error at line 1: Nov 23 16:07:11 hucosm gmetad: no element found Nov 23 16:07:11 hucosm gmetad: Nov 23 16:07:29 hucosm gmetad: Process XML (COSM Cluster): XML_ParseBuffer() error at line 1: Nov 23 16:07:29 hucosm gmetad: no element found Anyone knows what this means? ~Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:24 PM To: SORRILLO LAWRENCE; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Ganglia-general] Gmetad and rrd --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > I did try it. Everything seem to go fine, I got gmetad to start > running. > > My complilation did not create a gmond.conf file however, so I used a > gmond.conf file from a 2.5.1 installation and tried to do the > > Gmond --convert old-gmond.2.5.1.conf > /etc/gmond.conf > > I notice that the old file seem to want port 8649 in the converted > /etc/gmond.conf file but that the port in gmetad.conf file is 8651. > Is this a problem. > No, port 8651 is the port "gmetad" listens on to answer requests. a) on the machine running "gmond" (gmond_host), do a telnet localhost 8649 Do you see any useful metric data reported? b) on the machine running "gmetad", do a telnet gmond_host 8649 Do you see the same as with a)? c) on the machine running "gmetad", do a telnet localhost 8651 You should see roughly the same output as b) > Further I specified that the ganglia installation use rrd. I gave > user > nobody owernship of the an rrd db directory as such: > > rrd_rootdir "/opt/gp31/rrd1049/db" > > however I do not see any databases being created in the > "/opt/gp31/rrd1049/db directory. > > Any pointers? > Is "gmetad" running at all? Try to run it with "-d2". This should give you some debug output. Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de
