Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia issues I've been experiencing

2005-03-15 Thread Ramon Bastiaans
Jason A. Smith wrote: If you really want long term storage of the raw or nearly raw data then rrdtool is probably not the right tool to use. You would be better off writing your own ganglia frontend client that would collect the xml data from gmetad at the interval you need, parse it and store

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia issues I've been experiencing

2005-03-15 Thread Matt Massie
here is an idea you might try. all the rrd code is in ./gmetad/rrd_helpers.c the function for creating rrds is RRD_create(). you can alter the format of the round-robin archives there without breaking compatibility (in upcoming version of gmetad will allow you to specify the archives in the

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia issues I've been experiencing

2005-03-15 Thread Matt Massie
actually. i just updated gmetad to allow custom RRAs to be defined. i just dropped the code into CVS so if you use the CVS code (which will be released as 3.0.1 very soon)... you can specify RRAs RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:240 \ RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:240 \ RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:168:240 \

[Ganglia-general] Ganglia 3.0.0 on AIX 5.2 ml 3

2005-03-15 Thread Everett Mullis
I am currently looking at using Ganglia 3 to monitor compute clusters running Solaris 9, Suse Linux 9, and AIX 5.2 ml 3 on the Power4 and 5 architecture. Everything compiled nicely on the Solaris and Linux servers. After a little work, gmond and gmetric compiled and start correctly on the AIX

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 3.0.0 on AIX 5.2 ml 3

2005-03-15 Thread Robert E. Parrott
Can you describe how you got gmond to compile on AIX 5.2? thanx, rob On Mar 15, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Everett Mullis wrote: I am currently looking at using Ganglia 3 to monitor compute clusters running Solaris 9, Suse Linux 9, and AIX 5.2 ml 3 on the Power4 and 5 architecture. Everything