Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-26 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 07/25/2013 07:37 PM, Nikhil wrote: gmond aggregator is the node which has all the metrics (all the gmond instances send the metrics to this gmond node), it need not be restarted every time a reporting node(clients) are added/removed. The problem happens when the aggregator node goes down;

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-26 Thread Nikhil
Hi Adrian, Looks like the mcast configuration you are intending to use, should work. Besides the number of nodes, its the number of metrics from each node and overall, the payload per metric data that should also be taken into consideration. Also, as I said, I would use a mix and match of

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-26 Thread Nikhil
btw, I wish Oreilly gives me discounts for recommending to buy their Ganglia book ;-) On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Nikhil mnik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adrian, Looks like the mcast configuration you are intending to use, should work. Besides the number of nodes, its the number of metrics