Monitoring with Ganglia by Matt Massie, Bernard Li, Brad Nicholes, Vladimir Vuksan

Monitoring with Ganglia



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Monitoring with Ganglia Matt Massie, Bernard Li, Brad Nicholes, Vladimir Vuksan ebook
ISBN: 1449329705, 9781449329709
Format: epub
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Page: 256


The world of computing has undergone tremendous changes along its path of evolution, from the humble Analytical Engine to IBM's Cray. Ganglia: I am sure not many of you heard of it, its a scalable distributed monitoring system for high performance computing systems such as clusters and grid. You all may know that Ganglia is an open source monitoring tool for High Performance Computing (HPC) and by default it works on multicast. But It can be used to monitor heterogeneous unix environment as well. This has gmond, gmetad and the php web UI. I already have Ganglia setup in my house for basic server monitoring (you run linux servers in your house too right?) and since the device connects to the home network I figured it would be easy enough to query and graph. Ganglia is an open-source monitoring system specifically designed to meet the needs of distributed systems. I've used unicast so they'll work in the cloud. Over the last couple of months I have been talking to more and more customers who are either bringing their Hadoop clusters into production or that. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. They are intended as “quick start” working Ganglia packages. You can install Ganglia on one node. NOTE: Repost The ubuntu project “ensemble” is now publicly known as “juju”. Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. Today's letter G is for Ganglia.