Ganglia Input Adapter

The Ganglia adapter takes data from a Ganglia Monitoring System source and sends the rows to the Sybase CEP stream.

Property Name (screen)

Property Name (Attach Adapter)

Type

Description

MCAST Port

MCastPort

Integer

The Ganglia MCAST port. This property is required. The default value is 8649.

MCAST Group

MCastGroup

String

The Ganglia MCAST group. This property is required. The default value is 239.2.11.71.

Resolve hostnames

ResolveHostnames

Boolean

If this is set to true, the adapter attempts to convert IP addresses into real hostnames by doing a reverse lookup.

Each input stream has a property that can specify whether to use the current server timestamp value instead of the row timestamp set by the adapter. If this stream property is set to true, it overrides any row timestamp set by the adapter.

For more information see the Ganglia Alerts example in the examples/NetworkAndSecurity/GangliaAlerts directory.

On Microsoft Windows, the directory is typically:

C:\Program Files\SybaseC8\Server\examples\NetworkAndSecurity\GangliaAlerts

On UNIX-like operating systems, the directory is typically:

/home/<username>/sybasec8/server/examples/NetworkAndSecurity/GangliaAlerts