I'm running ganglia in EC2 and reporting works well. I'm running gmetad to monitor a database cluster from an admin reporting instance that is a centralized dashboard for all our systems. I don't want this instance to be included in the monitoring. In the admin gmond.conf, I've set:
mute = yes
But this only makes the web front-end show the host as dead. In the admin gmetad.conf, I have the data_source set to:
data_source "cluster" ec2-X-X-X-X.compute-1.amazonaws.com
(with ec2-X-X-X-X.compute-1.amazonaws.com being the ec2 hostname of the admin instance)
I thought setting mute=yes
would remove it from the reports and gstat, but both still show the admin host (localhost) as dead.
Is there a way to do this?