[torqueusers] ANNOUNCE: Public release of Ganglia Job Monarch v0.1.0

[Bas van der Vlies]

This software package replaces ganglia_pbs

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> From: Ramon Bastiaans <bastiaans at sara.nl>
> Date: March 10, 2006 6:33:10 PM GMT+01:00
>
> This is the first initial and public open source release of:
>
>    "Ganglia Job Monarch", the Job Monitoring and Archiving tool and  
> is a addon to Ganglia.
>
> DOWNLOAD
> ==========
>
> This release is:  ganglia_jobmonarch-0.1.0
>
> It is available here:   ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/ 
> ganglia_jobmonarch.tar.gz
>
> See the INSTALL file on how to set it up.
>
> DESCRIPTION
> ===========
>
>    Job Monarch is a set of tools to monitor and optionally archive  
> (batch)job information.
>
>    It is a addon for the Ganglia monitoring system and plugs in to  
> a existing Ganglia setup.
>    To view a operational setup with Job Monarch, have a look here:  
> http://ganglia.sara.nl/
>
>    Job Monarch stands for 'Job Monitoring and Archiving' tool and  
> consists of three (3) components:
>
>    * jobmond
>
>        The Job Monitoring Daemon.
>                Gathers PBS/Torque batch statistics on jobs/nodes  
> and submits them into
>        Ganglia's XML stream.
>
>        Through this daemon, users are able to view the PBS/Torque  
> batch system and the
>        jobs/nodes that are in it (be it either running or queued).
>
>    * jobarchived (optionally)
>
>        The Job Archiving Daemon.
>
>        Listens to Ganglia's XML stream and archives the job and  
> node statistics.
>        It stores the job statistics in a Postgres SQL database and  
> the node statistics
>        in RRD files.
>              Through this daemon, users are able to lookup a old/ 
> finished job
>        and view all it's statistics.
>
>        Optionally: You can either choose to use this daemon if your  
> users have use for it.
>        As it can be a heavy application to run and not everyone may  
> have a need for it.
>
>        - Multithreaded:    Will not miss any data regardless of  
> (slow) storage
>        - Staged writing:    Spread load over bigger time periods
>        - High precision RRDs:    Allow for zooming on old periods  
> with large precision
>        - Timeperiod RRDs:    Allow for smaller number of files  
> while still keeping advantage of small disk space
>          * web
>
>        The Job Monarch web interface.
>
>        This interfaces with the jobmond data and (optionally) the  
> jobarchived and presents the
>        data and graphs.
>
>        It does this in a similar layout/setup as Ganglia itself, so  
> the navigation and usage is intuitive.
>
>        - Graphical usage:    Displays graphical cluster overview so  
> you can see the cluster (job) state
>                    in one view/image and additional pie chart with  
> relevant information on your
>                    current view
>        - Filters:        Ability to filter output to limit  
> information displayed (usefull for those
>                    clusters with 500+ jobs). This also filters the  
> graphical overview images output
>                    and pie chart so you only see the filter  
> relevant data
>        - Archive:        When enabling jobarchived, users can go  
> back as far as recorded in the database
>                    or archived RRDs to find out what happened to a  
> crashed or old job
>        - Zoom ability:        Users can zoom into a timepriod as  
> small as the smallest grain of the RRDS
>                    (typically up to 10 seconds) when a jobarchived  
> is present
>
> EXAMPLE
> ========
>
> You can view a operational Ganglia Job Monarch setup here: http:// 
> ganglia.sara.nl/
>
> CONTACT
> ========
>
> Any information/suggestions/hatemail/bugreports/whatever to:
>
>    Ramon Bastiaans
>    <bastiaans ( a t ) sara ( d o t ) nl>
>
>
>

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Bas van der Vlies
basv at sara.nl