Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia 3.0.x development

2007-05-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
of it. Afterwards, I will check in my fixes for ganglia.spec.in. Thanks for all your help! Cheers, Bernard On 5/16/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you stated, everything that I have done should remain in trunk only. I would imagine that almost everything else committed

Re: [Ganglia-developers] php-gd

2007-05-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 5/16/2007 at 7:24 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The RPM php-gd is required on Red Hat/Fedora systems for the pie chart to be generated with the web-frontend. I intend to add this as a Requires in the spec file. Is this the same under SuSE?

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia 3.0.x development

2007-05-18 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 5/17/2007 at 12:07 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ulf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, have you ever checked out http://www.perzl.org/ganglia/ , these will add some power 5 metrics to ganglia, which are working fine. Tested for about 2 months on AIX 5.3. Is it possible to integrate

[Ganglia-developers] Gmond python support for gathering metric data...

2007-06-14 Thread Brad Nicholes
A colleague of mine, Jon Carey, has written a gmond metric module that adds python script support to gmond. Basically what this means is that by loading mod_python.so into gmond, the metrics gathering ability of gmond can be extended by simply writing and deploying python modules. Even

[Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-02-27 Thread Brad Nicholes
I am working on adding metric module extensibility to gmond in much the same way that Apache loads and uses dynamic modules. The fact that APR already support DSO loading for various platforms, makes the Apache model an easy fit. While implementing the example metric module, I wondered why

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-02-27 Thread Brad Nicholes
dropped since apr has all the expat xml code. please let us know how we can help. On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:36 -0700, Brad Nicholes wrote: I am working on adding metric module extensibility to gmond in much the same way that Apache loads and uses dynamic modules. The fact that APR

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-02-27 Thread Brad Nicholes
Paul Millar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/27/2007 10:36 AM On Tuesday 27 February 2007 16:36, Brad Nicholes wrote: I am working on adding metric module extensibility to gmond ... Hi Brad, As an aside, does MonAMI do any of the things you want? http://monami.sourceforge.net/ .It can route

[Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] linux/metrics.c - Remove fsusage.c

2007-02-28 Thread Brad Nicholes
Since fsusage.c is licensed under the GPL, the fact that this file is being linked into libmetrics causes a licensing issue for gmond. The attached patch removes the fsusage.c(.h) which relieves gmond of a licensing conflict between the GPL and BSD. Brad Index: metrics.c

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] linux/metrics.c - Remove fsusage.c

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 3/2/2007 at 7:10 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], matt massie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've just committed brad's libmetric update to subversion. very nice patch indeed... very simple and removes a licensing conflict. i remember this conflict being part of earlier threads on this list.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 3/2/2007 at 8:40 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad, thanks for providing this functionality. As others already commented, this is urgently needed. Now we have the question how to move on. It seems to me that we are on the way of opening

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 3/2/2007 at 10:13 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Maybe I should have looked at Brad's patch before putting in my $0.02 :-) It seems like his patch is already doing much of what I suggested. But personally, I think we should go even farther

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-07 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 3/1/2007 at 1:49 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I have just added an enhancement request to bugzilla (#129) for adding modular metric extensibility to gmond. I have also attached a patch file and example module to the bug report

[Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] Add wildcard support to the 'include' directive of gmond...

2007-03-15 Thread Brad Nicholes
I have just entered an enhancement request and patch in bugzilla (bug #135) to add wildcard support to the include directive of gmond. This will allow the include statement to process all configuration files within a directory that matches the specified file pattern. By doing this, the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-26 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 3/1/2007 at 1:49 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I have just added an enhancement request to bugzilla (#129) for adding modular metric extensibility to gmond. I have also attached a patch file and example module to the bug report

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-26 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 3/26/2007 at 9:38 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad, for the extensibility stuff, I believe we have not yet decided how to proceed: - put it in 3.0 - only possible if it does not break compatibility with existing gmond datastreams. We

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-04-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 4/2/2007 at 11:49 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Massie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 11:00 -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: Is there a reason why you created the 3.0.x development branch in ./tags? because i goof'd. i just moved the monitor-core-3.0-beta branch

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-04-05 Thread Brad Nicholes
On Wed, Apr 4, 2007 at 11:07 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got another error while building on x86_64 hosts: [...] protocol_xdr.c: At top level: protocol_xdr.c:194: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-04-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 4/5/2007 at 9:46 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 4/5/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually the .a and .la files don't need to be delivered at all. They should be marked in the make file as not part of the distribution

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Updates to ganglia.spec.in (/etc/ganglia/conf.d)

2007-04-11 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 4/11/2007 at 12:01 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: Thanks for checking in the changes for accommodating /etc/ganglia/conf.d. In the future, when you update ganglia.spec.in, can you please make sure you add a blurb to %changelog specifying

[Ganglia-developers] Removing the static dependancy on APR from Ganglia...

2007-04-24 Thread Brad Nicholes
FYI, I am working on removing the static dependancy on APR from GMOND and other ganglia binaries. In the process I am also moving Ganglia from APR 0.9.7 to APR 1.2.x. This first pass will add a --with-libapr option to configure which will be interpreted as linking dynamically to the distro's

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Removing the static dependancy on APR fromGanglia...

2007-04-25 Thread Brad Nicholes
], Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, I am working on removing the static dependancy on APR from GMOND and other ganglia binaries. In the process I am also moving Ganglia from APR 0.9.7 to APR 1.2.x. This first pass will add a --with-libapr option to configure which

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Removing the static dependancy on APR fromGanglia...

2007-04-26 Thread Brad Nicholes
, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have committed the patches to add --with-libapr to configure.in which allows the project to build against the distro version of libapr 1.2.x or to specify an alternate 1.2.x build. If --with-libapr=some-path-to-apr si specified, it will build and link

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Removing the static dependancy on APR fromGanglia...

2007-04-26 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 4/26/2007 at 11:06 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad: I recommend you take a look at this thread in ganglia-developers: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=36BEEFA2DF192944BF71E0 72F7A5F465228FE7%40xchange1.phage.bcgsc.ca

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Removing the static dependancy on APR fromGanglia...

2007-04-30 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 4/26/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/2007 at 11:06 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad: I recommend you take a look at this thread in ganglia-developers: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic apr autotools problems, solutions?

2007-04-30 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 4/29/2007 at 8:21 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Galbreath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, [[I vote for ripping apr out of the source tree too! But this post is more mechanical in nature so I decided to split it off.]] APR 1.2.X by has an unusual install. If you download it and

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Removing the static dependancy on APR fromGanglia...

2007-04-30 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 4/30/2007 at 11:04 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Massie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the current makefiles will build a libexpat.so and install it in /usr/lib. This is actually one thing that bothers me. that is actually not the case. if you look at the Makefile.am in

[Ganglia-developers] Support for multi-metric modules

2007-05-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 5/2/2007 at 4:14 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revision: 773 http://svn.sourceforge.net/ganglia/?rev=773view=rev Author: bnicholes Date: 2007-05-02 15:14:28 -0700 (Wed, 02 May 2007) Log Message: --- rework the interface for the

[Ganglia-developers] Multi CPU module added...

2007-05-04 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 5/4/2007 at 4:26 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revision: 776 http://svn.sourceforge.net/ganglia/?rev=776view=rev Author: bnicholes Date: 2007-05-04 15:26:12 -0700 (Fri, 04 May 2007) Log Message: --- Add a multi cpu module that will

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia python support module

2007-07-11 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/10/2007 at 7:29 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad: I got some questions regarding the python support module. Does it currently only support Python 2.4? Would it work with 2.4 2.4? I am currently developing on CentOS 4 and it only comes

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia python support module

2007-07-11 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/11/2007 at 2:53 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 7/11/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that there is anything in the code itself that requires python 2.4. The python module is fairly straight forward. Version

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia python support module

2007-07-12 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/11/2007 at 6:05 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: So how did you do it? Are you using the distro provided apr-1 or did you install it from source with --prefix? With apr-1-config, I can get the include path into a variable -- I then have

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmond python module: multidisk.py

2007-07-13 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/13/2007 at 7:01 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad: multidisk.py has a line: print 'Discovered device %s' % line[1] Is this for debugging purposes? Right now you will get output similar to the following when you start up gmond with -m or

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmond python module: multidisk.py

2007-07-16 Thread Brad Nicholes
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 7:01 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad: multidisk.py has a line: print 'Discovered device %s' % line[1] Is this for debugging purposes? Right now you will get output similar to the following when you start up gmond

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmond python module: multidisk.py

2007-07-16 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/16/2007 at 11:57 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: I don't have this file in CentOS 4.4 either. Looks like it is only available in newer kernels. Have a look at this bugzilla bug:

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia* for ganglia-gmetad RPM

2007-07-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/16/2007 at 8:13 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: Is /usr/lib/libganglia* needed by the ganglia-gmetad package? AFAIK it is only needed by gmond? Thanks, Bernard Yes it is, Gmetad uses a lot of the hash_*, err_*, debug_*,

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmond python module: multidisk.py

2007-07-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/16/2007 at 7:54 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 7/16/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slurpfile is probably doing the right thing by reporting that the file doesn't exist when it goes to read it (however it should probably

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia* for ganglia-gmetad RPM

2007-07-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
by normal users unless they need to compile code against Ganglia. The issue right now is that both ganglia-gmond and ganglia-gmetad packages provide the same file(s). Cheers, Bernard On 7/17/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/16/2007 at 8:13 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia* for ganglia-gmetad RPM

2007-07-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
to compile code against Ganglia. The issue right now is that both ganglia-gmond and ganglia-gmetad packages provide the same file(s). Cheers, Bernard On 7/17/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/16/2007 at 8:13 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia* for ganglia-gmetad RPM

2007-07-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/17/2007 at 12:33 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/17/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. ganglia-gmond should not be including any files in the lib/ganglia directory. You meant ganglia-gmetad should not be including any files

Re: [Ganglia-developers] (python) modules: dynamic amount/name of metrics?

2007-07-20 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 7/20/2007 at 4:28 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ramon Bastiaans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I'm the author of a addon to Ganglia that reports batch clusters job statistics and information in the webfrontend. Right now - among other things - I make use of a daemon that

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Build Ganglia on Windows

2007-08-07 Thread Brad Nicholes
All, Is there a formal place where build instructions like this for Windows, should be documented? Should a more formal set of build instructions for Windows be put in the README file? At least for building gmond and gmetric. Brad On 8/6/2007 at 10:15 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [Ganglia-developers] input arguments to python metric

2007-08-16 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 8/16/2007 at 1:52 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shaily Goel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I am planning to write a Drift Python Metric. This metric will track the user given list of files/directories for any change. Currently I am not able to find the way by which I can provide the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] logs/exceptions in python sensors

2007-08-20 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 8/20/2007 at 4:21 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shaily Goel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Few questions regarding python sensor 1. How to log a message in python sensor? Gmond doesn't provide an interface of its own for logging. However, python does have a very good interface for

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Python Metric cleanup method

2007-08-20 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 8/20/2007 at 6:47 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Periyasamy Palanisamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need some clarification on the metric_cleanup() method in python metric code. 1. what should be there in cleanup code? 2. Do we need to make dictionary list (it is initialized in the

[Ganglia-developers] [PROPOSAL] Building Gmond on Windows Doc...

2007-08-23 Thread Brad Nicholes
Attached is a doc that was prepared by Rajrajat Naik. This brief readme describes how to build gmond on the Windows platform. I am proposing that we add this to the monitor-core repository as a README.win document. I am posting it here first so that those that are interested in building on

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [PROPOSAL] Building Gmond on Windows Doc...

2007-08-23 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 8/23/2007 at 11:09 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 8/23/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a doc that was prepared by Rajrajat Naik. This brief readme describes how to build gmond on the Windows platform. I am

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and OSX 10.4.10

2007-08-24 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 8/24/2007 at 5:32 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike: On 8/24/07, Mike Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Platform: MacOSX 10.4.10 (Intel) and will confirm same problem monday on MacOSX 10.4.10 (powerPC) Problem: The data from

Re: [Ganglia-developers] web site and ganglia 3.1.0

2007-09-04 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 9/4/2007 at 12:21 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt: On 9/3/07, Matt Massie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lastly, i spoke with groundwork open source and they suggested we talk about having a ganglia 3.1.0 ganglia get-together. they offered to

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and OSX 10.4.10

2007-09-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 9/6/2007 at 12:22 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 8/24/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't looked at this code yet, but it sounds like something that should be using the APR API's rather than native API's. That should

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and OSX 10.4.10

2007-09-10 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 9/6/2007 at 12:22 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 8/24/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't looked at this code yet, but it sounds like something that should be using the APR API's rather than native API's. That should

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and OSX 10.4.10

2007-09-10 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 9/10/2007 at 3:22 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI Brad: On 9/10/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I do have one question regarding the 3.0.5 POLLHUP patch. It looks like the real problem with the code is that on an EOF, POLLIN

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and OSX 10.4.10

2007-09-12 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 9/12/2007 at 3:56 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Millar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, On Tuesday 11 September 2007 01:16:40 Bernard Li wrote: Information regarding Paul's patch: http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120 Paul's patch is a bit big, so

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 3.0.5 final RC

2007-09-18 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 9/17/2007 at 9:23 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernard, No go. This doesn't have the patch that I sent to work the OSX issues in gmetad. It does have the suggestion by Brad, of putting an if statement in the read loop to test for the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 3.0.5 final RC

2007-09-19 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 9/18/2007 at 10:02 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only speaking for what is happening on OSX. The original issue (before the patches): After reading all the data from the for(;;) loop, we would read a SYS_CALL buffer, determine that POLLUP was

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 3.0.5 final RC

2007-09-19 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 9/19/2007 at 11:01 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/19/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, this is the scenario that I was afraid of. I am by no means an expert in this area, but this seems broken on OSX. In this case you

[Ganglia-developers] Adding an alias to the metric message...

2007-10-01 Thread Brad Nicholes
I am thinking about adding an optional metric Alias that can be assigned to each metric through the gmond.conf file. The upside to this would be that the web front-end would no longer have to display the cryptic metric name for all of the graph titles and constant metrics. If an alias for

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia spec file cleanup

2007-10-16 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 10/11/2007 at 4:11 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alex: On 10/11/07, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - new subpackage modules-python which contains all the DSO/python modules (not really happy with the naming, so suggestions welcome!) How

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia spec file cleanup

2007-10-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 10/17/2007 at 5:31 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcus Rueckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-16 17:06:47 -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: On 10/11/2007 at 4:11 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alex: On 10/11/07, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia spec file cleanup

2007-10-19 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 10/19/2007 at 4:28 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad, - Original Message From: Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marcus Rueckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ganglia Developers ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net; Alex [EMAIL

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia version

2007-10-25 Thread Brad Nicholes
My vote would be that anything within the 3.1.x version must remain backward compatible. If a patch breaks backward compatibility, then it must only be applied to a future 3.x, 4.x, etc. version. Brad On 10/25/2007 at 10:27 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia version

2007-10-25 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 10/25/2007 at 11:06 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 10/25/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My vote would be that anything within the 3.1.x version must remain backward compatible. If a patch breaks backward compatibility

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] Per disk metrics

2007-10-26 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 10/26/2007 at 11:56 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eli Stair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ( cross-posting to ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net ) I'm just curious about this, since I'm pretty unfamiliar with the collision of the BSD license with things like this... how (if at

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] 4T limit on memory?

2007-10-30 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 10/29/2007 at 4:43 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, Brad: (Forwarding to ganglia-developers) Going forward (3.1.x) -- how should this be fixed? P.S. I currently have no plans to accept any patches into the 3.0.x branch (unless of course

[Ganglia-developers] Lets discuss the wish-list and make 3.1.0 happen (was:Re: [Ganglia-general] 4T limit on memory?)

2007-10-30 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 10/30/2007 at 9:55 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 10/30/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Going forward (3.1.x) -- how should this be fixed? P.S. I currently have no plans to accept any patches into the 3.0.x branch

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Moving on with Ganglia 3.1...

2007-11-01 Thread Brad Nicholes
modules will be available for all languages. But at least that gives the user the option rather than it being forced on them. Brad On 10/31/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took a quick look over the wish-list items that were proposed on the mailing list and tried

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Moving on with Ganglia 3.1...

2007-11-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/2/2007 at 2:18 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2-* Add a GROUP attribute (comma delimited) to the XDR data This would allow metrics to declare the category that they belong to. The category should be added

Re: [Ganglia-developers] questions on metrics as python modules

2007-11-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/6/2007 at 11:26 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Gouret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brad, I read the README pointed by the link you provide, and I see nothing regarding the spoofing option introduced in the version 3.0.4 of Ganglia. Does it mean that with python module,

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetric going away in 3.1 ?

2007-11-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/6/2007 at 1:45 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Blankenhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, john allspaw wrote: Hey all - While I love the idea of the python module, I'd like the plain-old gmetric binary to stay as-is. I'm not sure if there are/were plans

Re: [Ganglia-developers] questions on metrics aspython modules

2007-11-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
spoofing may be we would not use gmetric, and may be without gmetric we would not use Ganglia ? Christian. - Original Message - From: Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net; Christian Gouret [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetric going away in 3.1 ?

2007-11-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/6/2007 at 2:32 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Blankenhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Brad Nicholes wrote: On 11/6/2007 at 1:50 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/6/2007 at 1:45 PM, in message [EMAIL

Re: [Ganglia-developers] mod_python

2007-11-08 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/7/2007 at 4:16 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 11/7/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the fact that the .py file exists in the /usr/lib/ganglia/python_modules directory means that mod_python will automatically load

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR data layout changes for transport of gmond metric packets...

2007-11-08 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/8/2007 at 12:37 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Millar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad, On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:25:21 Brad Nicholes wrote: [...] Briefly I have been trying to add some additional data to the gmond XDR packets so that we can communicate attributes

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-general] python modules .pyc files

2007-11-09 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/9/2007 at 2:29 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 11/9/07, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python If it's okay with you, I will follow the instructions in the wiki docs to

Re: [Ganglia-developers] configure.in fixes for libdir

2007-11-14 Thread Brad Nicholes
+ libdir=$prefix/lib64 else - libdir=/usr/lib + libdir=$prefix/lib fi AC_OUTPUT(Makefile Cheers, Bernard On 11/9/07, Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 11/9/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the libdir variable that was added

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR packet refactoring and additional metric metadata...

2007-11-26 Thread Brad Nicholes
at 1:52 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: I just tested SVN r883 and it seems that the new gmond can no longer see older versions of gmond (prior to the XDR refactoring) -- is this an expected behaviour? Thanks, Bernard On 11/21/07, Brad

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR packet refactoring and additional metric metadata...

2007-11-26 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/26/2007 at 4:08 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay -- may have a bug with the latest code in trunk causing gmond to crash: Nov 26 13:03:08 server01 GMOND[14953]: Incorrect format for spoof argument. exiting. This happens about 20 mins after

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR packet refactoring and additional metric metadata...

2007-11-26 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/26/2007 at 4:37 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 11/26/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into this error before. I was due to an uninitialized XDR packet. Basically get gmond that receives the packet is looking

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia meetup first week of Dec (was Re: [Ganglia-general] Quick question... perchance a simple fix)

2007-11-27 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/27/2007 at 10:35 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: Do you know what your schedule will be like next week? Let's have a tentative date/venue for the meetup and start seeing how many folks can attend. It is kind of a short trip for me. I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR packet refactoring and additional metric metadata...

2007-11-27 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/27/2007 at 1:05 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 11/26/07, Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only info I have now is that the location used to be hidden but now it's being displayed (with 'unspecified' info). Will drill down into

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR packet refactoring and additional metric metadata...

2007-11-27 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/27/2007 at 4:07 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 11/27/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure yet what is causing this but I have patched the code to prevent it from happening. The current code was existing gmond

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR packet refactoring and additional metric metadata...

2007-11-27 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/27/2007 at 4:36 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 11/27/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, shouldn't I see multicpu entries when I click on Gmetrics? Currently there is nothing. No, you should see CPU utilization

Re: [Ganglia-developers] XDR packet refactoring and additional metric metadata...

2007-11-28 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/28/2007 at 3:41 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad: On 11/21/07, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling for PHP web frontend help! With the introduction of additional metadata, there is some work that needs to be done to the web

Re: [Ganglia-developers] OpenBSD tweaks

2007-11-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
The configure script really needs a complete run through by somebody who is an autotools guru. There are some other library dependancies that aren't being picked up even on the linux platform. When I was building again yesterday on a clean install of SLED, after running the configure script

Re: [Ganglia-developers] OpenBSD tweaks

2007-11-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/29/2007 at 11:05 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:52:14AM -0700, Brad Nicholes wrote: I am seriously considering removing the --enable-static-build and the entire srclib tree since it is basically dead code

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Static ganglia builds (was OpenBSD tweaks)

2007-11-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/29/2007 at 12:40 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:26:57AM -0800, Bernard Li wrote: In this case, static builds (with the updated dependencies from the tarball) should be able to take advantage of the new

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Static ganglia builds (was OpenBSD tweaks)

2007-11-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
Jesse Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/29/2007 3:10 PM Brad Nicholes wrote: Correct. Both the gmond binary and the metric modules have to be running the same APR code in the same process. If both are statically linked to a libapr they would both have to initialize their own APR library, create

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Static ganglia builds (was OpenBSD tweaks)

2007-11-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 11/29/2007 at 3:32 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:17:16AM -0700, Brad Nicholes wrote: The reason why I am making that suggestion is because if somebody wants a static version then they should just continue

Re: [Ganglia-developers] web front-end cross-scripting vulnerability

2007-12-05 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 12/5/2007 at 12:22 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys: On 12/5/07, Matt Massie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: outstanding! i'll send all the details to you in a separate email. thanks for stepping up! I guess we should re-open the 3.0.x

Re: [Ganglia-developers] metrics descriptor

2007-12-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 3:48 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Blankenhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad ! Nice meeting you yesterday :-) I took a closer look at PCP to see what it uses for the meta level description for every metric. I thought this might be interesting for

Re: [Ganglia-developers] question about titles/aliases for metrics

2007-12-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 12/6/2007 at 5:23 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], john allspaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the part where one can associate 'friendly' titles to metric names: Let's say I have two clusters of boxes, (web1 and web2) but they both have some similar custom gmetrics, say, apache_bytes.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] not able to compile ganglia-3.1.0.200711271612 in RHEL-4

2007-12-17 Thread Brad Nicholes
Ganglia 3.1.x requires the use of libapr-1 which is version 1.2.x of libapr rather than the 0.9.x version what was previously statically linked. You need to first install a compatible libapr1-devel package for RHEL-4 x86_64 or download the source tarball from the APR project

[Ganglia-developers] Moving all built-in metrics to metric modules...

2007-12-18 Thread Brad Nicholes
I just committed a rather substantial patch to Ganglia 3.1.0 trunk which will affect the way that gmond 3.1.x is deployed. I am posting this to both the developer list and the general list so that all will be aware of the changes and why they are important. The primary purpose for the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Windows Build From Trunk

2007-12-28 Thread Brad Nicholes
The latest code in trunk has been refactored to load all of the metrics from modules rather than hardcoded. To do this it relies on apr_dso_load() and apr_dso_sym() functions to load the (Windows) .dll or .so modules and then locate the structure symbol within the module that contains the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Home for Python DSO plug-ins

2008-01-10 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 1/9/2008 at 9:29 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Blankenhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy ! I have noticed that some Python modules live under gmond/python_modules/. On the other hand I remember that during our last meeting in SF 2007 we had talked about a module repository

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia Python DSO extensions

2008-01-14 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 1/12/2008 at 11:00 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Blankenhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brad ! I started looking into the impl of a IPMI Python DSO. Since one of the big advantages of IPMI is out-of-band monitoring, I would need a function that returns the list of nodes

[Ganglia-developers] questions re: user-defined instance datacollection, reporting, and listening

2008-01-14 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 1/14/2008 at 7:41 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lou Degenaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for help in understanding if Ganglia can be used to monitor a cluster relative to our needs. Questions: 1. In our situation. each node has one or more application instances

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia Python DSO extensions

2008-01-14 Thread Brad Nicholes
Inline :) Brad On 1/14/2008 at 12:16 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Blankenhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad, first of thank you very much for your elaborate reply ! Please, have a look at my comments inline blow. Matthias On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Brad Nicholes wrote

[Ganglia-developers] questions re: user-defined instance datacollection, reporting, and listening

2008-01-15 Thread Brad Nicholes
displaying the new or changed metrics. Brad Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/14/2008 02:06 PM To ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, Lou Degenaro/Watson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject [Ganglia-developers] questions re: user-defined instance datacollection, reporting

Re: [Ganglia-developers] mod_python

2008-01-15 Thread Brad Nicholes
compatible with Python 2.3.x which does not have the subprocess module: --- tcpconn.py.orig 2008-01-15 15:30:09.0 -0800 +++ tcpconn.py 2008-01-15 15:30:48.0 -0800 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ #* Author: Brad Nicholes (bnicholes novell.com

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia Python DSO extensions

2008-01-16 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 1/16/2008 at 12:46 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Blankenhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inline, as well :) Matthias On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Brad Nicholes wrote: [...] In addition, the host hash table and associated struct should probably be moved from gmond to libganglia

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