NAME
gmetric - manual page for Ganglia Custom Metric Utility
SYNOPSIS
gmetric [OPTIONS]...
DESCRIPTION
The Ganglia Metric Client (gmetric) announces a metric on the list of
defined send channels defined in a configuration file
-h, --help
Print help and exit
-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
-v, --value=STRING
Value of the metric
-t, --type=STRING
Either string|int8|uint8|int16|uint16|int32|uint32|float|double
-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’)
-S, --spoof=STRING
IP address and name of host/device (colon separated) we are
spoofing (default=‘’)
-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 Bugzilla Page at
http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/index.cgi
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