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
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The schema for this component is very similar to the options in the configuration file.
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/software/components/gmetad/data_source/[srcindex]/name
: stringName of the data source.
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/software/components/gmetad/data_source/[srcindex]/polling_interval
: long(1..)Optional polling interval for the data source, in seconds.
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/software/components/gmetad/data_source/[srcindex]/host/[hostindex]/address
: type_hostnameHost name or IP address per machine serving the data source.
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/software/components/gmetad/data_source/[srcindex]/host/[hostindex]/port
: type_portOptional port per machine serving the data source.
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/software/components/gmetad/debug_level
: long(0..)Optional level of debug output for the daemon.
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/software/components/gmetad/scalability
: stringOptional flag to enable or disable scalability mode. Valid values are
on
andoff
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/software/components/gmetad/file
: stringMandatory 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
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/software/components/gmetad/gridname
: stringOptional name of the grid.
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/software/components/gmetad/authority
: type_absoluteURIOptional authority URL for this grid.
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/software/components/gmetad/trusted_hosts
: type_hostname[]Optional list of trusted hosts.
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/software/components/gmetad/all_trusted
: stringOptional field to enable trust of all hosts. Valid values are
on
andoff
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/software/components/gmetad/setuid
: stringOptional flag to control setuid mode of the daemon. Valid values are
on
andoff
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/software/components/gmetad/setuid_username
: stringOptional name of the user account running the daemon.
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/software/components/gmetad/xml_port
: type_portOptional port on which gmetad will answer requests for XML.
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/software/components/gmetad/interactive_port
: type_portOptional port on which gmetad will answer queries for XML.
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/software/components/gmetad/server_threads
: long(1..)Optional number of threads answering XML requests.
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/software/components/gmetad/rrd_rootdir
: stringOptional directory where gmetad stores its RRD databases.