Good question. My understanding is that you need one gmond as a collector per cluster. So let's say "red App cluster" has 100 nodes in its cluster. One of those or a separate instance somewhere would have to be designated the collector. Since only one collector can run on a host, multiply by number of clusters, in my case something like 30, I would need 30 collectors.
I would think that if all nodes in a cluster could report to a unique collector (gmond.conf) on the same server, I would then only need 30 unique gmond.conf files (on the same host). At which point, it would only be a matter of including an additional mcast_join to the clients gmond.conf to replicate to another server. Or am I totally missing the point of this? Thanks for the quick reply. -Jess -----Original Message----- From: Ofer Inbar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:40 PM To: Jesse Alvarez Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] multiple gmond daemons on one host Jesse Alvarez <[email protected]> wrote: > to figure out is how to get more than one gmond daemon running on the > same host. So instead of having a dedicated gmond reporter for each > cluster (I plan to implement about 30 clusters), I would want each node > in the cluster to report to a set of custom collectors on the primary > and secondary servers. This would greatly reduce the need for additional > hardware as well as keep redundancy. Hmm, I am curious why you want to do this? In what way would it reduce the need for additional hardware? -- Cos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
