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The GKrellm Information Provider monitors systems for statistics like memory usage, CPU load, network load and disk load. It does this by communicating with a GKrellmd server, which must be running on all of the machines which are to be monitored. This information provider will collect the data from all specified gkrellmd servers, expose the collected data as a WSRF resource, and publish the resource to the Index Service.
Features new in release 4.1.1:
TODO: list any new features for this information provider for this release.
The following problems and limitations are known to exist for WS MDS GKrellm Service at the time of the 4.1.1 release:
- CPU load and current transfer rates are not being calculated correctly. They should be optional resource properties
The Index Service depends on the following GT components:
The Index Service depends on the following 3rd party software:
- All of the systems that the user wishes to observe via this information provider must be running gkrellmd version 2.2.7 or greater. More information on gkrellmd can be found at: http://www.gkrellm.net/
Tested Platforms for WS-MDS Index Service:
- Linux on i386
- Linux on x86_64
Tested containers for GKrellm Information Provider
- Java WS Core container
Associated standards for WS GKrellm Information Provider:
- WS-ResourceProperties (WSRF-RP)
- WS-ResourceLifetime (WSRF-RL)
- WS-BaseFaults (WSRF-BF)
- WS-BaseNotification
- WS-Topics
See Appendix B, GT 4.1.1: WS MDS GKrellm Infomation Provider Reference for more information about this information provider.