I think you meant to send this back to this list.

Cheers,

Bernard

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Buccaneer for Hire.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No sir, management nodes will unicast to the local ganglia server.
> The others will multicast.  So, where the other servers will only have one 
> line in the gmetad.conf, this one will have two.
>
> The reason I am trying to make it work this way is that we do not want 
> gmetads running on compute nodes.
>
> On the big cluster we us unicast and it has start becoming onerous.
>
>
> --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> From: Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] New Cluster Issue
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 2:01 PM
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Buccaneer for Hire.
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > We have a new cluster-1250 compute nodes, 10,000 cores
>> in 3 rows.  Each row is a composed of two subnets, Gb
>> management and 10Gb for production.
>> >
>> > We would like to have each gmond multicast in its own
>> subnet have a gmetad on each row on a ganglia node.  The
>> only exception is management nodes which will unicast to a
>> different port on Row 3 ganglia node.  Once this is in
>> place, we will collate all rows into once higher level
>> ganglia server. At this point, I should be able to see a
>> total row, and then 4 rows of items-rows 1,2,3 and MGT.
>> >
>> > We would then like to federate that information to our
>> global ganglia server exporting the entire cluster as one
>> unit.
>>
>> So these management nodes -- are you expecting them to be
>> multicasting
>> within their own row and also unicasting with the Row 3
>> ganglia node?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bernard
>>
>> P.S. With that many hosts, you are bound to run into the
>> I/O issue
>> with gmetad/RRD updates.  You may be interested in the
>> recent work
>> that is being done with rrdcached[1].
>>
>> [1]
>> http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/rrdcached_integration
>
>
>
>

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