On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:22, Richard Edward Horner <[email protected]> wrote: >> The numbers represent Rack, Rank and Plane respectively. >> ---cut--- >> >> The Location string attribute isn't what you think it is. This is a >> pretty common misconception. > > Why is this? I have several environments that are completely > virtualized and I have no concept of rack, rank or plane. For some > machines, all I know is the city they're in.
Because Ganglia was designed for cluster monitoring, the vast majority of which *do* have a concept of at least rack and rank (if not plane), and this was (presumably) useful at the time. This certainly doesn't preclude Ganglia from working in other, non-racked environments (I use it for watching workstations, for example). This may not be optimal--a free-form string would probably be more useful. Patches to change this are welcome. You could pretty easily encode your "location" to fit the R/R/P ganglia idea, if you really wanted to. 0/0/0 could be SanFran, 0/0/1 could be NYC, 0/0/2 is Boston, etc. -- Jesse Becker GPG Fingerprint -- BD00 7AA4 4483 AFCC 82D0 2720 0083 0931 9A2B 06A2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
