Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Kirk: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Kirk McDonald > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> gmetad runs on a certain host. Also on that host are a number of gmond >> instances, which are the gmond instances polled by gmetad. Each of >> these instances is reported to by a separate cluster, and they are >> each a separate data source for gmetad. All of the XML polling happens >> over localhost. >> > > I am curious why you are running multiple instances of gmond on the > gmetad host. Wouldn't it suffice to simply have gmetad poll gmonds > running on your cluster directly? > I can't speak for Kirk, but in one instance I do this to get around firewall restrictions. I can send packets out, but not in. So I had to jerry-rig some way to forward data to my gmetad. ;)
I wouldn't do it this way again, but I haven't gotten around to un-doing the decision. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
