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

[Steven A. DuChene]

We are already running a MySQL instance inside our cluster. How difficult
would it be to alter the jobarchived piece to write to a MySQL database
instead of postgres?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ramon Bastiaans <bastiaans at sara.nl>
>Sent: Mar 10, 2006 10:33 AM
>To: torqueusers at supercluster.org, Ganglia General <ganglia-general at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Cc: Ganglia Developers <ganglia-developers at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Subject: [torqueusers] ANNOUNCE: Public release of Ganglia Job Monarch v0.1.0
>
>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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