On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:59:01AM -0500, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: > I was wondering if there may be some value in using libstatgrab in Ganglia > for grabbing some of the metrics. I realize Ganglia has most (or all) of > the metrics in libgrabstat but may be a wise choice for the future since > you could "abstract" some of the statistics gathering. Just a thought.
ganglia has all the statistics gathering already abstracted in an internally maintained library called (libmetrics). > http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/ took a look at the library and is definitely interesting, specially taking that the code for the library is actually LGPL and so would be most likely compatible with ganglia's own libmetrics which is under BSD allowing for "cross pollination" the approach taken to gather the statistics is different though, and therefore it wouldn't work as a replacement of libmetrics as designed and in some cases the implementations used in libmetrics (like in the network statistics not requiring root privileges for Linux) are probably a better fit for what ganglia needs at the moment. Carlo
