[HTCondor-users] Being able to set the Gangliad DMAX value in the GangliaD metrics definitions

[Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I've been configuring the integration HTCondor+Ganglia, and overall it
works quite nicely, but I found an issue that should be easy to fix and
would improve the quality of the graphs. The issue is due to the fact
that the DMAX value injected to Ganglia by Gangliad is always 86400 (1
full day). As an example, for a test pool, I have right now:

,----
| $ condor_status
| Name               OpSys      Arch   State     Activity LoadAv Mem   ActvtyTime
| 
| slot1@xxxxxxxxxx   LINUX      X86_64 Owner     Idle      0.000 1957  0+00:00:00
| slot2@xxxxxxxxxx   LINUX      X86_64 Owner     Idle      0.000 1957  0+00:00:00
| slot3@xxxxxxxxxx   LINUX      X86_64 Owner     Idle      0.000 1957  0+00:00:00
| slot4@xxxxxxxxxx   LINUX      X86_64 Owner     Idle      0.000 1957  0+00:00:00
| slot1@xxxxxxxxxxxx LINUX      X86_64 Unclaimed Idle      0.000 1957  0+00:00:00
| slot2@xxxxxxxxxxxx LINUX      X86_64 Unclaimed Idle      0.000 1957  0+00:30:00
| slot3@xxxxxxxxxxxx LINUX      X86_64 Unclaimed Idle      0.000 1957  0+05:45:00
| slot4@xxxxxxxxxxxx LINUX      X86_64 Unclaimed Idle      0.000 1957  0+05:45:00
| 
|                Total Owner Claimed Unclaimed Matched Preempting Backfill  Drain
| 
|   X86_64/LINUX     8     4       0         4       0          0        0      0
| 
|          Total     8     4       0         4       0          0        0      0
`----

I have defined three metrics: "Owner", "CPUsInUse" and
"CPUsNotInUse". Right now the pool only has 4 slots in the "owner" state
and 4 slots not in use, but if I query the values for these metrics I
get the following:

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| $ telnet localhost 8651 | grep -i 'name="owner'
| <METRIC NAME="Owner" VAL="4" TYPE="int32" UNITS="" TN="30" TMAX="120" DMAX="86400" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond">
| 
| $ telnet localhost 8651 | grep -i 'name="cpusinuse'
| <METRIC NAME="CPUsInUse" VAL="2" TYPE="int32" UNITS="" TN="35237" TMAX="120" DMAX="86400" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond">
| 
| $ telnet localhost 8651 | grep -i 'name="cpusnotinuse'
| <METRIC NAME="CPUsNotInUse" VAL="4" TYPE="int32" UNITS="" TN="36" TMAX="120" DMAX="86400" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond">
`----

"Owner" and "CPUsNotInUse" get valid and up-to-date values (TN is
small), but since there are no CPUs in use by HTCondor and DMAX is a
full day, this metric keeps the value from a few hours ago.

For some metrics a large DMAX probably makes sense, but in this case I
would like to have a small DMAX (perhaps 120). Being able to override
the default DMAX value when defining a new metric would help in a
situation like this.

Is there already a way to do this? If not, perhaps I can submit a PR for
it?

Cheers,
-- 
Ãngel de Vicente                 -- (GPG: 0x64D9FDAE7CD5E939)
 Research Software Engineer (Supercomputing and BigData)
 Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias (https://www.iac.es/en)