We've written our own lightweight monitoring daemon that reports back to a portal facility back on the master node.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Prentice Bisbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The more services you run on your cluster node (gmond, sendmail, etc.) > the less performance is available for number crunching, but at the same > time, administration difficulty increases. For example, if you turn off > postfix/sendmail, you'll no longer get automated e-mails from your > system to alert you to a problem. > > My question is this: how extreme do you go in disabling non-essential > services on your cluster nodes? Do you turn off *everything* that's not > absolutely necessary, do you leave somethings running to make > administration easier? > > I'm curious to see how everyone else has their cluster(s) configured. > > -- > Prentice > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Moonet Ltd, registered in England and Wales No: 06330013 || VAT No: 921 6412 49 12, Westgate House, The Island, Gloucester, GL1 2RU || http://www.moonet.co.uk Registered Office: Ross House, The Square, Stow on the Wold, Cheltenham, Glos, GL54 1AF _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
