Ed Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I track eight metrics by running a series of gmetric commands once per > minute. They work very well now, but they show up in the no_group > heading on the web page for the site. > > I'd like to group them, and my initial probing indicates that the group [...] > Perhaps I should build a module to produce these values. Can I write a > module in Perl? How about Ruby? I don't know python :(
FYI, I had the same question about two months ago, and the answer I got was that I had to write python modules, otherwise grouping is unsupported. In my case, I'm using a bunch of scripts and daemons I wrote over the past two years to gather metrics related to Apache, MySQL, and postfix, and even if I did know python rewriting them all (and worse, re-testing them and proving them over time) might not be worth the trouble - I'd rather stick with the known accurate metrics I have now, and not spend all that time just to get them grouped. On the other hand, some important users complain bitterly about the default Ganglia web interface, and grouping would be one thing that would reduce their complaints (though there are many more problems). Answer I got was: Submit a patch to get it to allow perl modules :) The good news: Apparently if you group metrics after the fact, it won't matter that they've been in no_group so far, so once it becomes possible to group these metrics, we can group them without losing history. -- Cos ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
