----- "John Hearns" <john.hearns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > for a cluster-level pmda. I would really like to understand more
> > about this approach.
> >
> Yes indeed, SGI have a heirarchical approach for using PCP on ICE
> clusters.
>
> http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/linux/bks/SGI_Adm
> in/books/ClusterMan_AG/sgi_html/ch05.html#Z1210619170tls
>
> or http://tinyurl.com/63v9p6g
>
> As this is part of SGI's value add when supplying and supporting
> clusters, maybe they could be approached for licensing this
> software to folks who run the large clusters you describe, but not
SGI has kindly made this code available (some time ago) ...
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp-pmda-cluster.git;a=summary
AIUI (Mark would know more...) it gives a relatively fixed set of metrics
and is not really a general mechanism for exporting *anything* (like user
level metrics from something like Hadoop).
cheers.
--
Nathan
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