Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: >> 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 apologies for my ignorance, but could you please clarify how that is accomplished? I'm not sure what you mean by "same unicast address". >> 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. Agreed. Unfortunetly I'm unable to make that change and have to work around it, therefore I'm trying to do so in the cleanest way possible. Thank you very much for your reply, it provides an excellent alternative to the method I was pursuing. benr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
