So, I've run into a situation where there is quite a bit of data sitting on a lights out card that I'd like to get access to with ganglia. Since it supports IPMI, it seems like a great option, and I'd just use ipmitool. Every node has a lights out card, including an admin node that can see all of it
1) when running ipmitool on the local host to access the IPMI from the lights out card, it's brief (around a half a second for an sdr list), but kind of a serious hit (upwards of 10% cpu) to the node for what it's getting out of it. while it's not going to be accessed often (once every 10 minutes? 5 minutes?), I'd like to avoid that. 2) running ipmitool from the admin node produces no noticeable impact on the node, but sadly ganglia doesn't know that the data is coming from somewhere else, and there doesn't appear to be any way to tell ganglia (or gmetric for that matter) "hey, send this into the stream as belong to something else"... i.e. host spoofing. anyone else run into this? anyone else using ipmi with ganglia (there have been a few references in various googlable pdfs) that would care to share? Or perhaps something from the ganglia-dev list that I saw regarding it a couple months ago? Doug Nordwall Unix Administrator EMSL Computer and Network Support Phone: (509)372-6776; Fax: (509)376-0420 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
