*nod* I remember PCP from my days on IRIX (no pun intended?) ... I'm using a Perl script in combination with gmetric in the meantime, but from a posting I read here the other day apparently that interface is going away, so I am going to give Brad Nicholes' suggestion a gander, too.
thanks, Klaus On 10/19/07 6:38 AM, "aurbain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>did etch on stone tablets: > > Consider a different approach, Performance Co-Pilot will provide a > machines metrics in a unified format. I use a bash script and grep | > sed out what I want and call gmetric. One nic or 6, I get the in and > out stats on all. Also nice because I get per-partition io stats. > Current version of pcp is 2.7.1.1 > > > Klaus Steden wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am investigating implementing some custom metrics in ganglia for use with >> greceptor, specifically, to monitor hardware attributes. >> >> It looks straightforward, but I think I've hit a bit of a wrinkle. I've got >> systems in my cluster that are slightly assymetrical (i.e. some have two >> CPUs, some have only one CPU) -- which means that I would need to make two >> copies of my very simple greceptor plugin -- one for CPU 0, and one for CPU >> 1, and hardwire the specific CPU information into each one. >> >> This is not really ideal, as that means I have to do a hardware inventory on >> a system-by-system basis to avoid creating more scripts than CPUs, or fewer >> scripts than CPUs. >> >> What would be ideal would be if I reference CPU information as generic >> variables in the plugin, and it would be able to call each CPU individually >> and return numbers to ganglia, i.e. >> >> -- cut -- >> def value(self): >> cmd = 'read-cpu-temp %i' % cpu_id >> temp = os.popen(cmd).readline() >> return int(temp) >> -- cut -- >> >> The question is ... is it possible to pass the CPU identity into the >> >> >> >> Is such a thing possible? >> >> I looked through Google and the ganglia-info list archives and couldn't find >> any mention of it. Is there some documentation on greceptor plugins? >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >> Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. >> Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. >> Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Ganglia-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
