Doug Nordwall wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure gmetric does not host spoof?
Check latest version.




> 
> 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
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