Re: ganglia gmond/gmetric guide?

On Mar 29, 2010, at 9:42 PM, der.hans wrote:

> moin moin,
>
> I'm using ganglia for something. Someone else set it up, but I need
> to add
> a bunch of metrics ( that will then be alerted via nagios ).
>
> Just using gmetric as is given in multiple examples isn't working.
>
> gmetric --name distribution_release --value $( lsb_release -d | sed -
> re
> 's/Description:[[:space:]]*//' ) --type 'string'
>
> Running that via sudo also doesn't show up in the ganglia display.

Try tracing your metric from gmond to gmetad to the web. The path it
takes will vary depending on whether you use multicast or unicast, of
course.

After you run the gmetric command, wait a few seconds and run 'telnet
localhost 8649'. gmond will give you an XML representation of all the
metrics it knows about. You should see your new metric there.

On the node running gmetad, you can run 'telnet localhost 8651' to get
data for the entire cluster. Again, your metric should be there,
assuming you've waited long enough for gmetad to poll gmond for new
data.

gmetad also provides an 'interactive' port, which by default is 8652.
You can send it a query string (which sorta looks like xpath, but
isn't) and get the values just for a single host (or a single metric
on a single host). This is a good path to ganglia/nagios integration.

$ telnet localhost 8652
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
/cluster_name/host_name/load_five/

... this will return just the load_five metric on host_name in the
cluster cluster_name.

If you find your metric in gmond, and in gmetad, then it sounds like
you might have a permissions problem with the rrd files. But I seem
to recall those kinds of problems *do* show up in /var/log/messages.

>
> Both give exit status of 0.
>
> It's not showing up in /var/ganglia/rrds.
>
> Who should own those rrds files? We have them owned by root, but gmond
> runs as an unprivileged user?

They need to be writable by the user running gmetad (nobody?), and
readable by the Apache user.

>
> I also don't see that in /var/log/messages, which seems to be
> getting all
> the gmond logs.


alex
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