[csw-maintainers] ganglia unofficial 3.1.3 RC in testing

[Daniel Pocock]

dam at opencsw.org wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
>> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>> Am 22.09.2009 um 18:33 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
>>>> It is still officially a beta until the Ganglia community endorses it
>>>> as  GA - usually 1-2 weeks after tagging, if no one has found a major
>>>> fault.  I saw a message earlier that said I can't release properly
>>>> until it passes upstreams `beta' phase.
>>>>
>>>> Can we test it anyway, and then I will commit and put it in newpkgs
>>>> when it is officially GA?
>>> I could if I would install the packages manually. But as we have the
>>> commit policy "commit early, commit often" there really is no need to
>>> have any package in testing with UNCOMMITTED in it as it only makes
>>> things harder. Additionally, if I want to look into your recipe I can't
>>> do that right now as you haven't committed everything.
>> Ok, I have now committed them on a branch and put them in testing again
>> - please let me know which host you put the web package on so I can check
>> it
> 
> Great. However, I have some trouble activating it due to the
> vhost-configuration of buildfarm.opencsw.org. I'll have a deeper look
> later on...
> 
Even without running the web interface, you can still install the 
ganglia_agent package on all the machines you want to watch, and test it 
with this command:

nc localhost 8649 | grep ^.[CH]

The output should be a list of those hosts sending metrics on the same 
multicast group as the agent on localhost.