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Steven:
Glad that you got things sorted out.
Someone should file a bug on this and somebody from the Gweb team should
take a look at the issue.
Thanks all,
Bernard
On Thursday, April 12, 2012, Burton, Steven wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I've attached the xml.
>
> The rrds are in /var/db/ganglia/rrds
>
> pc28040664# ls -l /var/db/ganglia/rrds/Shepherd2/
> total 10
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ganglia ganglia 1024 Mar 29 16:23 172.17.1.40
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ganglia ganglia 1536 Apr 12 10:34 __SummaryInfo__
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ganglia ganglia 1024 Mar 29 15:46 pc28040664
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ganglia ganglia 1024 Apr 12 10:34 pc28040830
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ganglia ganglia 1024 Mar 29 16:10 scl-rsa3
> pc28040664#
>
> Aha scl-rsa3 in lower-case!
> So....
>
> cd /var/db/ganglia/rrds/Shepherd2
> ln -s scl-rsa3 SCL-RSA3
>
> And I have metrics in graphs :))
>
> I know that's not pretty but it proves the point.
>
> Thanks you so much for walking me through this.
>
> It occurs to me that a DNS lookup would return the server name in
> lower-case but the in XML the original server uses it's given name which we
> capitalize here.
>
> Steve.
>
> S Burton BSc(Hons) MIEE MBCS MIEEE
> Network Manager
> Shepherd Construction Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Phaal [mailto:peter.phaal@... <javascript:;>]
> Sent: 12 April 2012 15:25
> To: Burton, Steven
> Cc: Bernard Li; Ganglia
> Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia for Windows
>
> Can you send the output of an XML query to gmond? You can use telnet to
> connect to the tcp_accept_channel on the gmond machine:
> telnet localhost 8649
>
> It does sound like gmetad is successfully picking up the data and updating
> the RRDs. It does seem likely that there is an issue with the way that the
> web-UI is indexing and referencing the RRDs. What are the directory and
> file names under /var/lib/ganglia/rrds?
> ls /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/<cluster>
> ls /var/ib/ganglia/rrds/<cluster>/SCL-RSA3
>
> I am afraid I don't know much about how the UI deals with the data, but
> there must be something basic about how the data is being stored that is
> somehow different between the BSD and windows machines.
>
> Since Ganglia stores the data under directories keyed by hostname, I
> suspect that there could be some issue with the hostname? Perhaps the new
> Ganglia UI is case sensitive and doesn't like the capitalized hostnames
> exported from Windows? I have mostly used the old UI and there haven't been
> issues with monitoring Windows servers - it is possible that there are
> differences in the way hostnames are treated in the new code.
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Burton, Steven <
> sburton@...> wrote:
> > My setup is:
> >
> > FreeBSD 9 with gmetad 3.3.0, gmond 3.3.0 and web 3.3.1
> >
> > I can see metrics for this machine (which is a PC I'm using for the
> > trial)
> >
> > FreeBSD 8.1 with 3.1.7
> > I can see metrics for this machine (I installed 3.1.7 on a it is the
> > latest port for FreeBSD - not really part of the trial)
> >
> > Windows Server 2003 with Host sflow v 1.20
> >
> > Alas, most of our servers run Windows 2003 so when someone on the list
> drew my attention to sflow, I jumped at it.
> >
> > I have looked at the rrds for the win server and the mod times are
> > changing. Rrdtool dump shows that the contents are changing and 'rrdtool
> dump pkts_in.rrd | grep '<v>' | grep -v NaN | wc -l' shows that the number
> of values that are not NaN is going down, all of which suggests to me that
> the data is being received, stored and aggregated.
> >
> > Is it possible I'm missing something from gweb2? I haven't been able to
> find a canonical list of requirements for it so it's entirely possible I've
> missed something.
> >
> > Steve.
> >
> > S Burton BSc(Hons) MIEE MBCS MIEEE
> > Network Manager
> > Shepherd Construction Ltd
> > Head Office
> > Frederick House, Fulford Road, York, YO10 4EA
> > Tel: 01904 660391 Fax: 01904 660577
> > Web: http://www.shepherd-construction.co.uk
> > Registered in England and Wales Company Number: 201860 Registered
> > address: Huntington House, Jockey Lane, Huntington, York YO32 9XW
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Phaal [mailto:peter.phaal@...]
> > Sent: 11 April 2012 17:28
> > To: Burton, Steven
> > Cc: Bernard Li; Ganglia
> > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia for Windows
> >
> > The sFlow data from the Windows server looks fine.
> > Are you using gmond to monitor the BSD systems?
> > Is the Windows server the only one you are monitoring with sFlow?
> > Are you sure that you are running a new version of gmond (version 3.2 or
> greater) on the collector machine?
> >
> > Any older versions of gmond will discard the sFlow counters.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Burton, Steven <
> sburton@...> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I had to specify the interface to tcpdump.
> >>
> >> pc28040664
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