Re: [Ganglia-developers] Wildcard Configuration

[Kostas G. <k.g...@im...>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:01:43AM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote:

>   Thanks Rich.  This got me thinking a little about how the same thing
>   might be done only in a more generic way rather than just
>   sequentially numbered metrics.  I am wondering if, rather than
>   looping through numbers, we actually tried to do some pattern
>   matching over the known metrics.  For every known metric that
>   matches a metric pattern found in a collection_group, the metric
>   name is constructed and the metric is added using the
>   add_metric_series() function.  Of course it would also have to do
>   some kind of substitution for the metric title as well.  This could
>   simplify some of the metric configurations.

+1

Another option will be to have each module able to print some usable
configuration. I am attaching some patch from a quick hack that I wrote
for the multidisk plugin to output a usable .conf file. Maybe extending
the mudule api with a metric_autoconf function so you can do a gmond -t
modulename > modulename.conf (or something similar) is a good idea.
It can get you going for simple setups where you just need to collect
all available metrics.

Kostas