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GMETRIC(1) User Commands GMETRIC(1)

gmetric - manual page for Ganglia Custom Metric Utility

gmetric [OPTIONS]...

The Ganglia Metric Client (gmetric) announces a metric on the list of defined send channels defined in a configuration file

Print help and exit
Print version and exit
The configuration file to use for finding send channels (default=`/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf')
Name of the metric
Value of the metric
Either string|int8|uint8|int16|uint16|int32|uint32|float|double
Unit of measure for the value e.g. Kilobytes, Celcius (default=`')
Either zero|positive|negative|both (default=`both')
The maximum time in seconds between gmetric calls (default=`60')
The lifetime in seconds of this metric (default=`0')
Group of the metric
Description of the metric
Title of the metric
IP address and name of host/device (colon separated) we are spoofing (default=`')
spoof a heartbeat message (use with spoof option)

Matt Massie <massie@cs.berkeley.edu>

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https://github.com/ganglia/monitor-core/issues

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March 2008 gmetric