Thanks for your feedback Alan.
I am going to start the wheels in motion to move the shping
PMDA from the proprietary PCP RPM (pcp-pro) into the open source
distribution.
We are in the middle of a massive source tree reorganization at
the moment to allow us to release all of the core PCP pieces for
Linux and IRIX from a single source tree ... the shping migration
will happen after this reorganization is complete.
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Alan Bailey wrote:
> This is in response to your note about shping in the pcp mailing list
> a while ago. Here are my answers to your questions..
>
> > I would be willing to consider the case for moving the shping PMDA to
> > open source if I had some justification from the community ... if this
> > is of interest to you, drop me a note affressing questions like:
> > - why you want it?
>
> We are currently looking at using pcp for monitoring of very many aspects
> of linux clustering. These aspects would include the monitoring of the
> basic processes necessary for the normal operation of the machines.
> shping provides a very good method of doing this, along with the other
> thousand things that pcp can do.
>
> > - how would you use it?
>
> We would monitor processes on a cluster of machines. The number of
> processes might hover around 10 or so, and the number of machines would be
> very high.
>
> > - is any SGI hardware involved?
>
> No. Well, execpt NFS mounting of home directories that might be located
> on SGI machines. These NFS mounts would be monitored with shping.
>
> > - would this be a make-or-break issue for you embracing PCP in your
> > environment?
>
> I doubt it. PCP has shown to be useful in many other ways. However, I
> have people above me that might choose otherwise, and of course I would go
> along with them. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
>
> --
> Alan Bailey
>
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