[CF-Devel] Metaserver feature request

[Joris Bontje]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:13:17PM -0700, Mark Wedel wrote:
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      On Mon, 21 May 2001, Joris Bontje wrote:
     
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      > I can adjust my metaserver graph program very easily to log the datatraffic of ALL the servers.
     
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      > Two things on the server side should be done:
     
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      > 1) Let the metaserver accept 2 extra fields (bytes in and bytes out).
     
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      > 2) Let the server send on every metaserver update those 2 fields.
     
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       This can probably get done pretty easily.
     
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      <no problem for the unix client>
     
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       Since metaserver updates don't necessarily happen in sync with CSSTAT
     
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      updates, this would probably be cumulative total if inbytes/outbytes.
     
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      Is that the data you wanted, or did you want elapsed byte counts?
     
     
Cumulative totals would be best, thats what most traffic analysers eat; if
some updates get lost the data can be interpolated.

Joris Bontje / MiDS