prepare for Ganglia 3.1.0

[bastiaans]

Need to test Job Monarch with the upcoming Ganglia 3.1.0 release.

In 3.1.0 many features are changed, including a major redesign of gmond.

Gmond 3.1.0 supports python modules, although it doesn't support dynamic metric names.

A possibility is to enable jobmond with a 'gmond module'-mode, which in turn still submits it's own dynamic metrics but is called by gmond. That would no longer require a daemon mode.

[ramonb]

my username changed

[felix@…]

anybody working on this? I'd be interested to run jobmonarch with ganglia 3.1.1 and lava 1.0 (a free version of LSF)

[ramonb]

Not yet, I have not been able to try out Ganglia 3.1 myself. Hopefully I can start on this month...

The following tasks are defined for this:

• Test 3.1 gmetad XML parsing done by Job Monarch's PHP, does it still work
• update the embedded Gmetric code in gmond to be compatible with 3.1
• make sure that embedded and external Gmetric injection still works for jobmond

Pretty much to make sure it still works with 3.1. These are probably the biggest show stoppers for a new release.

Later on, further enhancements with lower priority:

• implement jobmond as a 3.1 gmond module
• implement jobarchived as a 3.1 gmetad module

Module support should be optional while retaining backwards compatibility mode for standalone/daemonized operation. I'm not sure however how this would work out for jobarchived.

[ramonb]

fixed in 1.0