Was talking to Ben Hartshorne about uuid on IRC and he pointed me to this RFC:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt Just thought I'd throw it out there. Cheers, Bernard On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Brad Nicholes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On 6/10/2008 at 4:45 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Place > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The ganglia wish list at >> http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_wish-list lists the >> following gmetad todo: >> >> * Name RRD directories based on UUID generated by client gmond >> >> Can anybody report on the status of this feature? It would be extremely >> useful in our implementation. >> > > Nothing has been done for this feature in the current implementation of > gmetad. However, the rewrite of gmetad in python will be able to accommodate > this type of feature. What I mean by "accommodate" is that the gmetad-python > version has implemented a pluggable interface and uses an RRD plug in to > write metric data to RRD files. This means that rather than having the RRD > functionality built into gmetad itself, the RRD functionality can be plugged > and replaced. That would mean that for most people, they would probably want > to use the standard RRD plugin. For you or anybody else that wanted it, you > could replace the standard RRD plugin with one that has been modified to > create directories using the UUID rather than host names. As far as > gathering a UUID from a host, this can be done already by simply implementing > a UUID metric module. Then when the gmetad-python RRD storage module sees > the UUID metric for a host, that is what it would use for the directory name. > > So the short answer is that no direct work has been done for this wish list > item. However, it can be solved using Ganglia 3.1 and the new gmetad-python > rewrite. > > Brad > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
