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')
-g, --group=STRING: Group of the metric
-D, --desc=STRING: Description of the metric
-T, --title=STRING: Title of the metric
-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 Github project at

https://github.com/ganglia/monitor-core/issues

COPYRIGHT

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