NCM::Component::gmetad¶
DESCRIPTION¶
The gmetad component manages Ganglia’s gmetad daemon. This daemon collects performance information from various nodes and stores it in a RRD database.
GMETAD¶
The configuration of gmetad is stored in the file /etc/gmetad.conf
.
The schema for this component is very similar to the options in the configuration file.
/software/components/gmetad/data_source/[srcindex]/name
: string
Name of the data source.
/software/components/gmetad/data_source/[srcindex]/polling_interval
: long(1..)
Optional polling interval for the data source, in seconds.
/software/components/gmetad/data_source/[srcindex]/host/[hostindex]/address
: type_hostname
Host name or IP address per machine serving the data source.
/software/components/gmetad/data_source/[srcindex]/host/[hostindex]/port
: type_port
Optional port per machine serving the data source.
/software/components/gmetad/debug_level
: long(0..)
Optional level of debug output for the daemon.
/software/components/gmetad/scalability
: string
Optional flag to enable or disable scalability mode. Valid values areon
andoff
.
/software/components/gmetad/file
: string
Mandatory field specifying the location of the the configuration file. For Ganglia 3.0, this should be/etc/gmetad.conf
and for Ganglia 3.1, it should be/etc/ganglia/gmetad.conf
.
/software/components/gmetad/gridname
: string
Optional name of the grid.
/software/components/gmetad/authority
: type_absoluteURI
Optional authority URL for this grid.
/software/components/gmetad/trusted_hosts
: type_hostname[]
Optional list of trusted hosts.
/software/components/gmetad/all_trusted
: string
Optional field to enable trust of all hosts. Valid values areon
andoff
.
/software/components/gmetad/setuid
: string
Optional flag to control setuid mode of the daemon. Valid values areon
andoff
.
/software/components/gmetad/setuid_username
: string
Optional name of the user account running the daemon.
/software/components/gmetad/xml_port
: type_port
Optional port on which gmetad will answer requests for XML.
/software/components/gmetad/interactive_port
: type_port
Optional port on which gmetad will answer queries for XML.
/software/components/gmetad/server_threads
: long(1..)
Optional number of threads answering XML requests.
/software/components/gmetad/rrd_rootdir
: string
Optional directory where gmetad stores its RRD databases.