Shell Tips !

With Ganglia, graphing a large number of servers has never been so easy… Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. Ganglia let you create any kind of module in C/C++ or Python. You can also use the command line tool Gmetric and then the scripting language of your choice. The problem with Gmetrics is that you can’t keep your data organized by group and it’s getting harder to poll values in an efficient way. Few months ago I needed to monitor some JMX values returned by a Java daemon.

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