Bernard, great idea. A contrib directory is is sadly missing.
Martin --- Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alex: > > Actually I wonder if we should check your code into trunk as > "contrib" > code... what do others think? > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alex Balk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:32 > > To: Bernard Li > > Cc: Stackpole, Chris; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia Alert and Tracking > > > > > > > > Bernard Li wrote: > > > > >> I am trying to write a script that pulls the info from netcat > > >> and averages out some numbers but I believe that there is a > > >> easier way. Does ganglia store data in such a way that I > > >> could pull this type of information? This appears so useful > > >> to me that I am sure that there are others that have tried > > >> this, are there any ideas and suggestions? > > >> > > > > > > Sorry for hijacking your thread Chris but your question leads me > to > > > think that there are some interesting data stored in the > > RRD database, > > > perhaps we could write a script to mine this data and provide > some > > > interesting historical reports? > > > > > > > Actually, my patch for "custom graphs" accomplishes exactly > > what you're > > talking about. > > It allows you to create a template and then load it for whatever > view > > (meta, cluster, host) you desire. Couple this with gmetrics > > and you can > > pretty much generate a graph for anything (read - visually > > represent any > > aspect of your data). It also supports rrdtool's CDEFs, so you can > do > > data transformations as well. > > Oh, and the rendering backend may be called from within an > > <IMG SRC=...> > > which allows creating "customized dashboards". I've started working > on > > one where customers can view different utilizations graphs > > based on the > > cluster specialty (batch, interactive, infrastructure), NFS > > statistics, > > parallel job utilization (how much does process named X consume > across > > multiple hosts), etc. > > > > > > What I'm really missing is a method to "generate" aggregate > > data on the > > fly. Something like "take these 3 hosts, all from different > clusters, > > and show me their aggregate CPU consumption". > > > > Cheers, > > Alex > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general > > ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de
