Good day everyone, I have been wondering if it would be possible to use some kind of metric to pass information from the "nodes" back to the Ganglia frontend and have them displayed on a sub webpage.
Specifically what I would like to do is piggyback a message from the computer back to the Ganglia server so that I can pull the message out, log it, and display it on a page within Ganglia. I would like to use this to record basic events and alerts, but I can think of many reasons why this could be really helpful. The method of implementation I am currently thinking of is having just a command line program that sends whatever message is passed to it back to Ganglia. I could then use the other tags that are sent along to determine who sent the message, and display the computer name and message on a page. I just don't know how well this would work. I currently am doing the following for Linux computers: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "echo computer2 My_Message >> /tmp/file ; ./update_website" This just doesn't work well cross platform and for systems that do not have ssh. That's when I thought that I may be able to use the base of Ganglia to accomplish the same task on every machine. I did not find anything in the archives so I figured I would ask for pointers before I began on my own. Does anyone have any ideas on how feasible this may be and where I might begin? Thanks! Chris Stackpole
