On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:24:05PM -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote: > > I don't have multicast in my environment.
is this a solaris problem or just an environmental constrain that you can't workaround? > I started out using unicast > but strict unicast configuration of gmond is really painful in my > experience. if you really have only 1 cluster, then all you have to do is configure all nodes with the same unicast address (a collector) and the poke that server from your gmetad configuration for the cluster status. > I then found that I could use multicast in a non-multicast > environment on Solaris and just let it all become broadcast. So now I > have gmond's on each subnet working together via broadcast, however I > need to "bridge" the gmond's together. you are abusing the application and the network to send a UDP packet to a broadcast IP, it will be better to fix the source of your environmental limitations instead of hacking around them. Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
