--- Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:11:26PM +0200, Rafal Masztalerz wrote:
> > Hi
> > I added some new metrics for my ganglia software using the
> "gmetric"
> > command.  When I run the webpage without parameters :
> > http://computer/ganglia/ everything seems to be ok and I can choose
> my
> > new metrics.
> > 
> > But when I try to do other things on this page, for expample, when
> I
> > choose some metric  ("bytes_out") then there are no my new metrics
> on
> > the new/refreshed page.
> >
>
http://computer/ganglia/?m=bytes_out&r=hour&s=descending&c=comp&h=&sh=1&hc=4
> > 
> 
> Rafael,
> 
> Be careful that your metric only sends numbers.  In some versions of
> ganglia, if your script that reports the gmetric accidentally sends
> letters instead, Bad Things(tm) happen.  I wrote a script to parse
> the
> output of 'who' to count the number of logged in users, but I did it
> wrong.  Occasionally it got a word instead of a number.  This caused
> unexplained metric-loss throughout my gangila installation.  
> 
> A newer version of gmetric fixed this problem, but it is a good place
> to> -ben
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hartshorne
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://ben.hartshorne.net
> >
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> start looking.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't remember what versions are affected.
> 

 The fix for the "gmetric" bug went in on 25-Jan-2006. So, it should be
in 3.0.3.

Cheers
Martin

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