2018.12.10

Table of Contents Agenda and Notes Action Items from Meeting

Agenda and Notes

• V4 Release Plans - Est Dec 14
  • V4 will be released from main ovis site (here!) on github; V3 will move to ovisv3 at gihub. Future V3 development limited to bug fix releases only.
• V4 store csv configuration change:

 Currently:
  load name=store_csv
  config name=store_csv path=/projects/brandt/LDMS_CSV action=init altheader=1 rollover=86400 rolltype=1 buffer=1
 In Release:
  * config will take a file argument with configuration arguments
  *'action' is deprecated because 'Custom' is deprecated

• What kind of documentation do users want to see?
  • Where can users post questions?
  • Where can users get help?
    • google group ovis-hpc OR [email protected] until we get a non-google archival site
  • Plugin targets?
  • Man pages online with examples?
  • Configuration and Best Practices:
    • Example Configuration Scripts
    • Configuration Considerations and Best Practices Guide
      • Aggregator configuration examples by expected fan-in and # of sets
      • Groups
  • Multiple agg to agg connections
  • Storage plugins and use cases
    • csv
    • function_csv
    • sos
    • function_sos
    • rabbit
    • flat file (file per metric)
  • rdma vs. sock use cases
  • push vs. pull use cases
  • Migration (v3 -> v4) concerns
  • Live functional demonstrations?

Action Items from Meeting

• Still working on non-google mailing list
• Feature request -- could there be a way to trigger a flush without having to stop and restart the store?
• FIX some of the lost items in the configuration
• More info wanted on -- automatic failover (HA).
• NEXT MEETING: Jan. Topics:
  • converting v3 configuration to v4
  • HA details and configuration