>>> On 1/31/2008 at 4:20 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Nordwall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For reference, here is a current HOST line of XML > > <HOST NAME="mybox.local" IP="10.1.1.1" REPORTED="1201820930" TN="7" > TMAX="20" DMAX="0" LOCATION="unspecified" GMOND_STARTED="1200935314"> > > We're looking at making some patches to ganglia to do one of the > following things: > > 1) replace the _value_ with the value of the job_id, and modifying the > code so that you can update the location. This would also include the > option to keep the location as it is written currently, or spoof it > with a job_id (or arbitrary value) > 2) add a new field to the HOST entry called job_id and allow it to be > updated without restarting ganglia. > > Sadly, we can't use a job_id a metric (well, we could but it's more of > a pain in other part of our code). For the purposes of our machine, a > machine is dedicated to a single job. The ultimate idea is to be able > to drop whatever we like into that host field and have it change > without an entire restart of ganglia. > > Do any of the main ganglia dev folks have an opinion here? We'd be > looking to submit this back into the main stream once we are done. > > As always, I'm open to be told I'm wrong or it has been done :) >
I'm not sure that I understand what you are trying to do. From the description, I am assuming that you are trying to associate a job_id with a host. The easiest way to do that would be to just create a metric module that returns a constant job_id string as a metric. Yet, you mentioned that for some reason you can't do that. Could you explain why? Otherwise just adding a job_id attribute to the <HOST> doesn't sound very useful except in your case. Is there some general benefit to adding a job_id attribute? Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
