gmetric - manual page for Ganglia Custom Metric Utility

gmetric [OPTIONS]...

The Ganglia Metric Client (gmetric) announces a metric value to all Ganglia Monitoring Daemons (gmonds) that are listening on the cluster multicast channel.

-h --help

Print help and exit

-V --version

Print version and exit

-nSTRING --name=STRING

Name of the metric

-vSTRING --value=STRING

Value of the metric

-tSTRING --type=STRING

Either string|int8|uint8|int16|uint16|int32|uint32|float|double

-uSTRING --units=STRING

Unit of measure for the value e.g. Kilobytes, Celcius

-cSTRING --mcast_channel=STRING

Multicast channel to send/receive on (default='239.2.11.71')

-pINT --mcast_port=INT

Multicast port to send/receive on (default=8649)

-iSTRING --mcast_if=STRING

Network interface to multicast on e.g. 'eth1' (default='kernel decides')

-lINT --mcast_ttl=INT

Multicast Time-To-Live (TTL) (default=1)

Matt Massie <massie@cs.berkeley.edu>

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