Re: [Condor-devel] Collectors not advertising themselves

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/19/2010 09:09 AM, Robert Rati wrote:
> That was my first thought as well; to re-arrange the code such that the
> collectors won't register to the UW Collector, but will register to
> other collectors in the user's pool.  It feels kind of hack-ish to me
> though, like there should be a better mean to determine whether he
> collector should report in rather than the number of startds it knows
> about.  In theory, a collector could know about daemons other than
> startds and be a valid configuration, but the UW pool would never know
> about it.
> 
> Rob
> 
> Alan De Smet wrote:
>> I have no doubt there are users running collectors on every node
>> of their pool, and it would be nice to avoid spamming our global
>> collector with their ads.  However, it seems wrong to suppress
>> that information from the users individual collector.  Notably,
>> it doesn't let us tell users: "run 'condor_status -collector' and
>> if there are more than 3 or so entries, you might want to
>> reconfigure your pool."

FYI

commit a2bd1cd2d1e76dfadc219506144b0db20988e6e4
Author: epaulson <epaulson>
Date:   Wed Mar 28 22:48:22 2001 +0000

    Merged 6.2-merge-3 into 6.3
    The collector changes were so people who accidentlly have multiple collector
    don't keep sending us world ads and email