Thanks to all! I just wanted to close out this item, by saying that I was able to use PHP to get the XML stream from gmetad and extract what I was looking for.
Thanks, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:45 PM To: Brad Nicholes Cc: Jesse Becker; Mattice, David; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] rrdtool query of gmetric strings On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:53:28AM -0700, Brad Nicholes wrote: > > David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Page_Hits.rrd" file > > gmetric --name="Description" --value="Web Server" > > --type=string -> does not create a "Description.rrd" > > > 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. and that is why if you want to poll string metrics generated through gmetric then getting the data from the gmetad XML (tcp connection into port 8651 most of the time) will be probably better (they will be identified as SOURCE="gmetric") 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
