The information pushed to ganglia in this variable is then read by ganglia drivers in opennebula to extract the information about the VMs.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Craig Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Javier, > > Thanks for the explanation. I was under the impression that the virtual > machine information would also be graphed. What is the purpose of the > OPENNEBULA_VM_INFORMATION metric? Is it so that you can pull this > information from Ganglia using another tool? Thanks again! > > Craig > > -----Original Message----- > From: Javier Fontan [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:23 AM > To: Craig Dawson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [one-users] Ganglia reports > > Yikes! I've misreaded the email. The VM information is not directly parseable > by ganglia so it cannot be used to draw graphics or to get notifications on > VM activity. There are two ways to add VM information from my point of view, > one is to create a virtual ganglia host per VM and add the information there > (I see it a bit hackish but maybe the cleanest). The other is to create new > parameters per VM/monitoring value pair in the physical host it is running > it, something like OPENNEBULA_VM_85_CPU, OPENNEBULA_VM_85_FREEMEMORY and so > on. I see this technique ugly and non scalable. > > Do you see any other way to do this? > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Javier Fontan <[email protected]> wrote: >> That weird string in OPENNEBULA_VMS_INFORMATION is normal, is a >> yaml-base64 representation of the VMS info. Can you send me that >> string from one of your hosts, maybe there is something wrong in the >> monitoring scripts. >> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Craig Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I just installed OpenNebula 2.2 and I wanted to get Ganglia reporting >>> set up. I was able to get Ganglia running on each of my host >>> machines. The host are all reporting in and I'm able to see all of the >>> graphs per host. >>> I'm running RHEL 6 on the hypervisor nodes and using KVM for my >>> guests. I attempted to set up the reporting for my guest machines as >>> described here: >>> http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:ganglia >>> >>> When I look at my Ganglia reports, I don't see any of the guests >>> showing up. I am running gmetric out of cron every minute. I >>> noticed after I set this up, there is now a >>> OPENNEBULA_VMS_INFORMATION metric, but when I click on this, I only >>> see the base64 encoded string for each host. Is there some other >>> process that is supposed to grab the information from Ganglia and >>> generate the graphs? I'm very new to OpenNebula and Ganglia, so any help >>> in identifing where I should look next would be greatly appreciated. >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Craig Dawson >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Javier Fontan, Grid & Virtualization Technology Engineer/Researcher >> DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org Globus GridWay >> Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org OpenNebula Virtual >> Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org >> > > > > -- > Javier Fontan, Grid & Virtualization Technology Engineer/Researcher DSA > Research Group: http://dsa-research.org Globus GridWay Metascheduler: > http://www.GridWay.org OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: > http://www.OpenNebula.org > > > -- Javier Fontan, Grid & Virtualization Technology Engineer/Researcher DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
