GMOND(1)

💖 gmond(1) — the manual page for gmond, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round 🫶 this is the man page for gmond, filed under manual name gmond in section 1, living in the User Commands section of ur terminal. it's giving cluster-core, it's giving daemon energy, and i'm gonna walk u through every single flag so u don't have to squint at raw troff. no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gmond — manual page for Ganglia Monitor Daemon

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gmond [OPTIONS]...

literally that's it. options, and then more options. she's flexible like that 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

The Ganglia Monitoring Daemon (gmond) listens to the cluster message channel, stores the data in-memory, and when requested will output an XML description of the state of the cluster.

that's the whole personality. she listens 👂, she remembers (in-memory, so don't get too attached 😭), and when u ask nicely she hands u an XML snapshot of how the entire cluster is doing. main character behaviour, fr fr.

🎀 the options, aka ur flag cheat sheet 🎀

• -h, --help — Print help and exit
• -V, --version — Print version and exit
• -c, --conf=STRING — Location of gmond configuration file (default=/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf)
• -l, --location=STRING — Location of this host in the cluster 'rack,rank,plane'. (default=0,0,0)
• -d, --debug=INT — Debug level. If greater than zero, daemon will stay in foreground. (default=0)
• -f, --foreground — Run in foreground (don't daemonize) (default=off)
• -t, --default_config — Print the default configuration to stdout and exit (default=off)
• -m, --metrics — Print the list of metrics this gmond supports (default=off)
• -b, --bandwidth — Calculate minimum bandwidth use for configuration (default=off)
• -r, --convert=STRING — Convert a 2.5.x configuration file to the new 3.x format
• -p, --pid-file=STRING — Write process-id to file

lowkey note: -l wants the location as 'rack,rank,plane' — three numbers, comma-separated, and if u say nothing she assumes 0,0,0. and -d is sneaky iconic: anything greater than zero and the daemon stops hiding in the background and stays in the foreground where u can watch her. 🍓

🧚 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

please do actually report them bestie, don't just suffer in silence 😭

💜 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. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.

that's the legal bit and yes it's loud in all caps, that's just how licenses yell 🫠 no cap, read it.

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 👑

gmond — March 2008 — manual page GMOND(1) 💖 bye ily, go monitor something 🌈