Re: [Ganglia-developers] dynamic discovery of hosts in EC2

[Alex D. <al...@cr...>]

On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Paul Hewlett wrote:

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> Hi Nick
>  
> Modify gmond to write a special file /etc/ganglia/ec2.conf with the discovered instances and then modify gmetric to read that file – using a cmdline option perhaps
> This change should be lightweight enough for gmetric

I haven't looked at this code specifically, but just a general suggestion: A process shouldn't typically be able to write to files in /etc. Any data that gmond needs to write out should probably go somewhere in /var.

alex