Re: [Ganglia-general] viewing a separate cluster?

[Bernard Li <be...@va...>]

Hi Stephen:

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Stephen Spencer
<sp...@cs...> wrote:

> I have an existing Ganglia installation with two data_sources, corresponding
> to two homogeneous sets of cluster nodes.
> The relevant lines from /etc/ganglia/gmetad.conf on the head node of this
> cluster - call it 'frame' - are:
>
>   data_source "no-gpu" node.fqdn (using the default port)
>   data_source "gpu" node.fqdn:8653
>
> I'm deploying a new cluster - call it 'redman' - and would like to have
> THESE nodes show up as a third data source. I'll have 'gmond' on each of the
> nodes, and 'gmetad' on the head node, just like I do on the original
> cluster.
>
> How should I set up data collection on 'redman,' and how can I configure
> 'frame' to retrieve that collected data from 'redman'? My first thought
> would be to run 'gmond' on 'redman'... but I don't want data from 'redman'
> to be collected; it's a head node, not a compute node.
>
> The head nodes of each cluster - 'frame' and 'redman' - are on the public
> network, but their nodes are not.

Run gmond on 'redman', but set "mute" to "yes", then it should not
collect any data.  See the gmond.conf manpage for additional
information.

Cheers,

Bernard