GMETRIC(1)

💖 NAME 💖

gmetric — the manual page for the Ganglia Custom Metric Utility. That's the whole vibe: it's the little utility that speaks metrics into the void for you 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gmetric [OPTIONS]...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The Ganglia Metric Client (gmetric) announces a metric on the list of defined send channels defined in a configuration file. Like, that's literally its whole job bestie — you hand it a metric, it shouts it into every send channel your config told it about 📢💫

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — Print help and exit. Your "wait what do I do" button 🙈
• -V, --version — Print version and exit.
• -c, --conf=STRING — The configuration file to use for finding send channels (default = /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf).
• -n, --name=STRING — Name of the metric. You gotta name it, it's not gonna name itself 💅
• -v, --value=STRING — Value of the metric.
• -t, --type=STRING — Either string|int8|uint8|int16|uint16|int32|uint32|float|double. Pick your flavor of number (or not-a-number) ⭐
• -u, --units=STRING — Unit of measure for the value e.g. Kilobytes, Celcius (default = '').
• -s, --slope=STRING — Either zero|positive|negative|both (default = both).
• -x, --tmax=INT — The maximum time in seconds between gmetric calls (default = 60).
• -d, --dmax=INT — The lifetime in seconds of this metric (default = 0).
• -g, --group=STRING — Group of the metric.
• -D, --desc=STRING — Description of the metric.
• -T, --title=STRING — Title of the metric.
• -S, --spoof=STRING — IP address and name of host/device (colon separated) we are spoofing (default = ''). Yes, you are the main character wearing a fake name tag 👑
• -H, --heartbeat — spoof a heartbeat message (use with spoof option). 🫶💓

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Matt Massie <massie@cs.berkeley.edu>

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report all bugs to the Ganglia Github project at

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

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies of this software.

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okay that's the whole page, no cap 🌈 this was gmetric from GMETRIC(1) (User Commands energy), dated March 2008 — go forth and announce your metrics, bestie, you're gonna slay 💖✨🎀