NAME

       gmond - manual page for Ganglia Monitor Daemon

SYNOPSIS

       gmond [OPTIONS]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  Ganglia  Monitoring Daemon (gmond) listens to the cluster message channel, stores the
       data in-memory and when requested will output an XML  description  of  the  state  of  the
       cluster

       -h, --help
              Print help and exit

       -V, --version
              Print version and exit

       -c, --conf=STRING
              Location of gmond configuration file  (default= `/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf')

       -l, --location=STRING
              Location of this host in the cluster 'rack,rank,plane'.  (default=`0,0,0')

       -d, --debug=INT
              Debug level. If greater than zero, daemon will stay in foreground.  (default=`0')

       -f, --foreground
              Run in foreground (don't daemonize)  (default=off)

       -t, --default_config
              Print the default configuration to stdout and exit (default=off)

       -m, --metrics
              Print the list of metrics this gmond supports (default=off)

       -b, --bandwidth
              Calculate minimum bandwidth use for configuration (default=off)

       -r, --convert=STRING
              Convert a 2.5.x configuration file to the new 3.x format

       -p, --pid-file=STRING
              Write process-id to file

AUTHOR

       Matt Massie <massie@cs.berkeley.edu>

REPORTING BUGS

       Report all bugs to the Ganglia Bugzilla Page at

         http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/index.cgi

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