>>> On 1/4/2008 at 6:47 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mattice, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Jesse! > > I can see individual ".rrd" files for numeric metrics, which are based on > the merric name. For example: > gmetric --name="Page_Hits" --value="9" --type=uint32 -> This will > generate a > "Page_Hits.rrd" file > gmetric --name="Description" --value="Web Server" --type=string -> > does not > create a "Description.rrd" > > Both of these will showup on the gmetrics page, and the numeric one will > generate a graph, but only the numeric one seams to create it's own ".rrd" > file. > > Thanks, > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Becker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:57 PM > To: Mattice, David > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] rrdtool query of gmetric strings > > On Jan 3, 2008 3:53 PM, Mattice, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way to query the rrd databases for data that was added by >> "gmetric"? I have several descriptive string fields that are added as >> hosts are added to the clusters and I want to extract these strings on >> the gmetad server. I have not been able to determine what rrd >> database these metrics are added to. > > I don't think that there is anything inherent in the .rrd files to > distinguish a "stock" metric (e.g. from gmond) from a "custom" one (e.g. sent > via gmetric). However, gmetad does keep track of the source of the data, and > can provide that. I think that this means if a metric hasn't been updated > since gmetad was started, gmetad won't know about it (I'm not 100% sure about > that). > >
That is true. Gmetad doesn't know about a metric on a given machine until that metric has been reported by the gmond running on that machine. That's why some metrics, especially constant metrics, might not show up in the web frontend for a while after gmetad has been restarted. Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
