Shyam Kompalli

STG Lab Services

Lab Service STG

Ganglia Monitoring Tool

2009 IBM Corporation

Exploring Ganglia

What is Ganglia

Monitoring Tool that displays Real Time performance data of the Server Clusters as a Dashboard with drill down capability

Developed by University Of California, Berkeley Computer Science Dept

Currently in use on thousand of clusters around the world

Open Source Product

Expandable (Can add new new Metrics)

Scalable (can monitor up to 2000 nodes)

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Glossary

Node CLUSTER GRID

Single Logical Partition on a Frame Monitored Partitions on a Single Frame Collection of Monitored Frames

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Ganglia Infrastructure

Collection Deamon

GMOND

GMETD

Monitoring Deamon

RRD

Round Robin Database

Ganglia Scripts

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Apache WebServer Web Browser IBM Lab Services & Technical Training

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Ganglia Communication
GMETAD

GMETAD

NODE 4

NODE 4

NODE 1

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NODE 3

MUTICAST MUTICAST

UNICAST
TCP UDP

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Ganglia Implementation rrdtool*.rpm ganglia-gmetad*.rpm ganglia-gmond*.rpm rrdtool*.rpm gangliagmetad*.rpm ganglia-gmond*.rpm

NODE 4

NODE 4

NODE 1

NODE 2

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NODE 1

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ganglia-gmond*.rpm

ganglia-gmond*.rpm

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Ganglia Implementation gangliagmond*.rpm /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf gangliagmetad*.rpm /etc/ganglia/gmetad.conf

cluster { data_source "Power_Cluster" name = data_source "Power6_Cluster" localhost "Power_Cluster" gridname 9.5.167.136:8650 "Rochester Lab owner = "unspecified" " latlong = "unspecified" url = "unspecified" } udp_send_channel { host = ip address of the receiving node port = 8649 ttl = 1 } udp_recv_channel { port = 8649
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Ganglia Implementation

GMETAD

GMETAD

NODE 4

NODE 4

NODE 1

NODE 2

NODE 3

NODE 1

NODE 2

NODE 3

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Ganglia Implementation

NODE 4 GMETAD

NODE 4

Apache
PHP scripts

RRD GMOND

GMETAD

GMOND
NODE 4

RRD
NODE 4

GMOND

GMOND
NODE 2

GMOND

GMOND

GMOND
NODE 2

GMOND

NODE 1

NODE 3

NODE 1

NODE 3

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Rochester Lab

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Rochester Lab

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Rochester Lab

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2009 IBM Corporation