On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Jesse Becker<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Duly noted! Thanks, Rich(ard) -- Richard Edward Horner Engineer / Composer / Electric Guitar Virtuoso richhorner.com | rhosts.net | sabayonlinux.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
