Cherife Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you are now running gmetad on a new box, did you change the host > to send in the config files on all the gmond boxes?
I didn't have to, I believe they're multicasting. If that had been the problem, then gmetad wouldn't have been updating the RRDs for all the hosts, would it? (regardless of cluster name) > Why don't you upgrade gmetad and gmond on the original boxes? > Are you sure that by the method above, you won't lose any data? Upgrading gmond on one of the old boxes caused a huge problem and I immediately downgraded it again. Many metrics suddenly turned into nonsense. I posted about that to this list separately. Upgrading the existing gmetad to something that may or may not work makes it likely that I would lose data. The way I'm doing it now, I still have the old gmetad running and collecting data and can keep retrying the new one until it works correctly. > There must be something wrong within your gmetad config file. Actually, I found the problem, and it turned out not to be the gmetad.conf file. It turned out to be some of the gmond.conf files on other hosts: Some of them did in fact have name = "unspecified. So: most hosts have name = "OurCluster" in gmond.conf several hosts have name = "unspecified" in gmond.conf old gmetad puts *all* hosts in OurCluster new gmetad puts *all* hosts in unspecified I changed two of the gmond.conf files from unspecified to OurCluster, restarted their gmonds, and restarted the new gmetad. That fixed it. Now: most hosts have name = "OurCluster" in gmond.conf several hosts have name = "unspecified" in gmond.conf (but two fewer than before) old gmetad puts *all* hosts in OurCluster new gmetad puts *all* hosts in OurCluster I know I should go and fix the few remaining flawed gmond.conf files, but I also wonder: how does this make any sense? How does gmetad decide which cluster to put all the hosts in? -- Cos ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
