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Ganglia 3.1.7 Released

Posted by Bernard Li in Releases on March 8, 2010

The Ganglia Project (http://ganglia.info) is pleased to announce the official release of Ganglia 3.1.7 The official tarball is available for immediate download at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ganglia/files/ganglia%20monitoring%20core/3.1.7/

For a full description of the bug fixes and enhancements that are included in the 3.1.7 release as well as upgrade information, please see the current release notes at:

http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes

Supported platforms:

  • Linux (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE/OpenSuSE)
  • [Open]Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • DragonflyBSD
  • Cygwin (no support for DSO yet)
  • AIX (initial support for DSO now available – please provide feedback)

Please read all the README, INSTALL and other available documentation (http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net) as a lot of things have changed since version 3.0. Use good deployment practices when upgrading from 3.0.x to make sure that you do not mix gmond 3.0 and 3.1 nodes in the same cluster (as defined by a multicast address or unicast collector node). The protocol that allows gmond nodes to communicate within the same cluster, has changed. However the XML packets that are passed between gmond and gmetad have remained compatible from 3.0.x to 3.1.x, allowing a 3.1.x gmetad to continue to pull data from an older 3.0.x gmond cluster.

Ganglia Development Team

[Update: Initial support for DSO is available on AIX]

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Ganglia 3.1.2 (Langley) Released

Posted by Bernard Li in Announcements, Releases on April 7, 2009

The Ganglia Project (http://ganglia.info) is pleased to announce the official release of Ganglia 3.1.2  The official tarball is available for immediate download at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43021&package_id=35280&release_id=661845

For a full description of the bug fixes and enhancements that are included in the 3.1.2 release as well as upgrade information, please see the current release notes at:

http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes

Supported platforms:

  • Linux (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE/OpenSuSE)
  • [Open]Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • DragonflyBSD
  • Cygwin (no support for DSO yet)
  • AIX (no support for DSO yet)

Please read all the README, INSTALL and other available documentation (http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net) as a lot of things have changed since version 3.0. Use good deployment practices when upgrading from 3.0.x to make sure that you do not mix gmond 3.0 and 3.1 nodes in the same cluster (as defined by a multicast address or unicast collector node).  The protocol that allows gmond nodes to communicate within the same cluster, has changed.  However the XML packets that are passed between gmond and gmetad have remained compatible from 3.0.x to 3.1.x, allowing a 3.1.x gmetad to continue to pull data from an older 3.0.x gmond cluster.

Ganglia Development Team

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Ganglia 3.1.1 (Wien) Released

Posted by Bernard Li in Announcements, Releases on September 9, 2008

The Ganglia Project (http://ganglia.info) is pleased to announce the
official release of Ganglia 3.1.1  The official tarball is available for
immediate download at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43021&package_id=35280&release_id=625044

For a full description of the bug fixes and enhancements that are included
in the 3.1.1 release as well as upgrade information, please see the current
release notes at:

http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes

Supported platforms:

  • Linux (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE/OpenSuSE)
  • [Open]Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • DragonflyBSD
  • Cygwin (no support for DSO yet)
  • AIX (no support for DSO yet)

Please read all the README, INSTALL and other available documentation
(http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net) as a lot of things have changed since
version 3.0. Use good deployment practices when upgrading from 3.0 to make sure
that you do not mix gmond 3.0 and 3.1 nodes in the same cluster (as defined by
a multicast address or unicast collector node).  The protocol that allows gmond
nodes to communicate within the same cluster, has changed.  However the XML
packets that are passed between gmond and gmetad have remained compatible from
3.0.x to 3.1.x, allowing a 3.1.x gmetad to continue to pull data from an older
3.0.x gmond cluster.

Ganglia Development Team

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Ganglia 3.1.0 (Amelia) Released

Posted by Bernard Li in Releases on July 30, 2008

The Ganglia Project (http://ganglia.info) is pleased to announce the first
official release of Ganglia 3.1.0 The official tarball is available for
immediate download at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43021&package_id=35280&release_id=616721

Please refer to http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes
for more information.

(There is a known bug with 3.1.0 gmetad aggregating XML data from another 3.1.0 gmetad — if your environment requires this feature, wait for 3.1.1 to be released. Alternatively, a patch has been developed and is available here)

The main features of this release are:

  • Introduction of a modular metric interface for C and Python (DSO support)
  • Scriptable metric module support with Python
  • All pre-existing metrics (CPU, network, disk, memory, etc.) converted to metric modules
  • Introduction of new metric modules multicpu, multidisk and tcp_conn status
  • Modular frontend graph support
  • Metric groups which can be viewed or hidden as desired
  • Additional scaling capacity for systems with memory greater than 4TB
  • Platform support for DragonFlyBSD
  • Improved native metric support for Windows (Built with CygWin)
  • Bug fixes and Enhancements

Supported platforms:

  • Linux (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE/OpenSuSE)
  • [Open]Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • DragonflyBSD
  • Cygwin (no support for DSO yet)
  • AIX (no support for DSO yet)

Please read all the README, INSTALL and other available documentation
(http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net) as a lot of things have changed since
3.0.7. Use good deployment practices when upgrading from 3.0.x to make sure
that you do not mix gmond 3.0 and 3.1 nodes in the same cluster (as defined
by a multicast address or unicast collector node). The protocol that
allows gmond nodes to communicate within the same cluster, has changed.
However the XML packets that are passed between gmond and gmetad have
remained compatible from 3.0.x to 3.1.x, allowing a 3.0.x gmetad to continue
to pull data from a newer 3.1.x gmond cluster.

For those who are interested in upgrading from a 3.0.x installation, your
current gmond and gmetad configuration files will need to be moved from their
current location to /etc/ganglia. If you are attempting the upgrade via an
RPM, the RPM will automatically move your current configuration file to the
new location. However, for gmond, the 3.0.x conf file will not work. Please
use the patch file gmond-3.1.patch available at
http://www.ganglia.info/releases/ to patch your gmond.conf prior to
starting, otherwise gmond will fail to startup.

There are several known issues with the current release which include the
following:

  • no support for C++ to create DSO modules
  • no spoofing from modular metrics (use gmetric if spoofing is needed)
  • race condition for tcpconn python metric module (affects gmond -m)
  • libdir issues related to building for 64bit platforms
  • known build issues for platforms:
    • Darwin (AKA MacOS/X)
    • HPUX
    • Tru64 (AKA OSF/1)
    • Irix

Many of the above issues are being addressed and patches will be applied for
the next minor release of Ganglia 3.1.x. In addition more information about
the current official release, can be found on the Ganglia wiki at
http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes.

Ganglia Development Team

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Ganglia 3.0.7 (Fossett) Released

Posted by Bernard Li in Releases on February 27, 2008

The Ganglia development team is pleased to announce the release of Ganglia 3.0.7 (Fossett) which is available for immediate download from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43021&package_id=35280&release_id=580140

This is a bugfix release which fixes bugs that were introduced in 3.0.6 as well as memory leaks in gmond.

Summary of bugfixes in 3.0.7:

  • [web] Host view metric graphs’ “now (x.xx)” number is always 0.00
  • [web] “Show Hosts” toggled did not work
  • [gmond] Fix memory leak from network metrics on Linux (thanks Kumar Vaibhav for reporting)
  • [gmond] Fix spoof memory leak (thanks Martin Hicks for the patch)

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Ganglia 3.0.6 (Foss) Released

Posted by Bernard Li in Releases on December 16, 2007

The Ganglia development team is pleased to release Ganglia
3.0.6 (Foss) which is available for immediate download from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43021&package_id=35280

This release includes a security fix for web frontend
cross-scripting vulnerability.

All Ganglia web frontend users are strongly recommended to
upgrade to this version. In most cases the version of the
frontend does not need to match the version of gmetad and/or
gmond — if problem arises, please drop us a note at
ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net.

Special thanks to Romain Wartel at CERN for discovering the
vulnerability and reporting it to us and to Alex Dean for
stepping up with the fix so quickly.

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Ganglia 3.0.5 (Louis) Released

Posted by Matt Massie in Releases on October 2, 2007

The Ganglia development team is proud to release version
3.0.5 (Louis) of the popular Ganglia monitoring software.
Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for
high-performance computing systems such as clusters and
Grids.

The latest release is available for immediate download from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43021&package_id=35280

This release has a few feature/portability enhancements as
well as the usual array of bugfixes.

Work is underway for the next (3.1.0) release of Ganglia
which will allow metrics to be dynamically loaded via DSO.
These metrics can be written either in C or Python making it
extremely easy to create plugins for monitoring metrics not
already present by default. Apr, expat and libconfuse will
be built dynamically in the new release which will make
packaging for distributions easier.

Changes:
The following is a summary of changes in this release. For
detailed changelog please refer to the ChangeLog file in the
release distribution tarball:

  • [gmetad] Fixed a bug where messages are being discarded in
    MacOSX and thus causing data from clients not being
    consistently and accurately saved to the rrd files (Mike
    Walker)
  • [win32] Include documentation (README.WIN) for building
    under Windows
  • [webfrontend] Enlarge graphs by clicking on them (Ulf)
  • [webfrontend] Include RRDTool version in frontend footer
    (Matthew Chambers)
  • [webfrontend] Only set the grid stack cookie if it hasn’t
    been set before (Matt Ryan)
  • [webfrontend] New feature to allow sorting by hosts up and
    hosts down in meta context (Bernard Li, Eli Stair, Timothy
    D Witham)
  • [gstat] New option “-n” to show numeric addresses instead
    of hostname (Bernard Li)
  • Builds under Yellow Dog Linux on Sony PlayStation 3 ppc64
    (Bernard Li)
  • Do not automatically start services (gmond, gmetad) after
    RPM installation (Bernard Li)
  • Add y-labels for some metrics. Needed to fix width of RRD
    images. (Martin Knoblauch)
  • Build system (Autotools) enhancements (Carlo Marcelo
    Arenas Belon)
  • Misc bug fixes

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Ganglia 3.0.3 Released

Posted by knobi in Announcements, Releases on April 17, 2006

The Ganglia Development Team is pleased to announce the release of Ganglia 3.0.3 (Orwille) which is available for immediate download from

http://ganglia.info/downloads.php

This release fixes a bug that caused XML port output to be truncated,
fixes FreeBSD compilation errors, makes gmetad more resilient to
round-robin database problems, makes “gmond -t” output more complete,
updates the underlying Apache runtime library, expands the maximum
size of gmetric messages, provides various minor PHP bugfixes in the
Web frontend, and adds 3D pie graph effects.

This release has been tested on the following platforms:

* Fedora FC4 / ia32
* Solaris 8 / UltraSparc 64-Bit / gcc 3.3.1
–> “CC = gcc -m64 ./configure”
* MacOS X
* AIX-5.3 / PPC64 / XLC
–> See separate post on this topic

The development of Ganglia 3.0.4 is now open.

Enjoy.

The Ganglia team

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Ganglia 3.0.2 Released

Posted by Matt Massie in Releases on November 8, 2005

The Ganglia Development Team is pleased to announce the release of
Ganglia 3.0.2 (Wilbur) which is available for immediate download from
http://ganglia.info/downloads.php.

This release is mainly fixing bugs. For a detailed description of the
changes see the Changelog included in the tarball.

Some of the highlight are:

  • New AIX metrics code
  • NetBSD support
  • “–pid-file” option for gmond and gmetad
  • Old gmond “location” staments are now handled correctly
  • “gmond –location” now works correctly
  • Compile fixes for MacOS Tiger
  • Gmond no longer core-dumps on 64-bit Linux platforms
  • cpu_wio is now reported correctly
  • PHP fixes in the web-frontend
  • many more…

The following Bugzilla entries are adresses: 27, 49, 54,62, 63, 68,70, 72.

This release has been tested on the following platforms:

  • Fedora FC4 / ia32
  • SuSe 9.0 / x86_64
  • RHEL3 / ia64
  • Mac OS Tiger
  • Solaris 2.8 / Sparc-64
  • AIX 5.2, 5.3

Enjoy.

The Ganglia team

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Ganglia 3.0.1 Released

Posted by Matt Massie in Releases on March 24, 2005

The Ganglia Development Team is pleased to announce the release of
Ganglia 3.0.1 (Wright) which is available for immediate
download from http://ganglia.info/downloads.php and features…

gmond Unicast Communication Bug Fixed
This serious bug caused unicast-only
gmond to completely stop sending metric updates after
network failures.

gmond.conf Conversion Bug Fixed
If you converted your old 2.5.x configuration files to 3.0.0 using
the gmond conversion feature. e.g. 
  % gmond --convert my_old_gmond.conf > my_new_gmond.conf

then you will want to change the host mask from 24 to 32 for all
you trusted hosts. e.g.

  tcp_accept_channel {
    port = 8649
    /* your trusted_hosts assuming ipv4 mask*/
    acl {
       default = deny
       access {
        ip = <trusted_host_ip>
        mask = 24 /* <========== BUG! */
      }
    }
  }

The conversion code in 3.0.1 correctly sets the host mask to 32.

gmond.conf now processes include() statements
This simple feature provides more flexibility in configuring gmond. e.g. 
  globals {
    include(globals.conf)
  }
Network Metrics Bug Fixed for Linux 2.6.x Kernels
A bug in the pkts_in/out and bytes_in/out collection code cause
Linux 2.6.x system to report bogus network metrics.

Cleaned up bug in RPM for package upgrades
When upgrading a previously installed ganglia package, the error in the spec
file will result in a file named “1” written into the / directory.

FreeBSD Metric Collection Enhanced
There have been a number of bug fixed and cleanups of the metric
collection code for FreeBSD thanks to the work of Brooks Davis.

Host view update
The host view web pages now express the time when gmond was started
on the host thanks to the work of Jason A. Smith.

We have deployed a new bugzilla service at http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/.
This site was created for you to submit bug reports, feature requests and
upload patches for ganglia.

If you have found ganglia to be useful in your organization, please consider
making a donation to the project at
http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=43021

Thanks for using Ganglia!

The Ganglia Development Team

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