[Lustre-discuss] How do you monitor your lustre?

Erik Froese erik.froese at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 05:19:15 PDT 2010


Hey Jim,

This is great news. THanks for all of your hard work.

Erik

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Jim Garlick <garlick at llnl.gov> wrote:
> On the lustre-discuss subject of "is LMT moribund":
>
> LMT2 definitely had a burst of activity a few years ago and then dropped
> off dramatically as the original developers, some of whom were "borrowed"
> from another group, moved on to other things.  I've been maintaining it
> to a degree in my spare time, but I acknowledge that support has been
> somewhat lacking.
>
> A couple of months ago, I began a serious attempt to address some of the
> issues that come up repeatedly on the lmt-discuss mailing list.  This turned
> into a rewrite of the back end (cerebro and mysql interface) and ltop utility.
> The new code will appear in lmt3, to be released sometime in October.
>
> Highlights of lmt3:
> * New ltop that works directly with cerebro and has an expanded display.
> * Auto-configuration of mysql database (lustre config is determied on the fly)
> * Improved error handling and logging (configurable)
> * New config file
> * Code improvements for maintainability
>
> Since ltop is now written in C/curses and talks directly to cerebro,
> the mysql database for storing historical data and the lwatch java client,
> which can graph historical data, are optional.
>
> So in summary, LMT was never abandoned, and although support has been
> fairly thin and the code somewhat fragile, there are good prospects for
> that improving in the future.
>
> LMT Google code page: http://code.google.com/p/lmt/
>
> Jim Garlick
> LLNL
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