Sending system metrics to logstash without starting gmetad.conf daemons

[berrytchaks]

Hi All,
I was able to send ganglia metrics to logstash when I configure and start both gmond.conf and gmetad.conf daemons. Now what I want is to configure the gmond.conf daemon ONLY to send metrics to logstash. That is I'm looking for a mean to send ganglia metrics to logstash when gmetad.conf is not started.
In the first, I had configured gmetad.conf and gmond.conf as follows:
In gmetad.conf
case_sensitive_hostnames 0
data_source "my cluster" 60 localhost
In gmond.conf
cluster {
name = "my cluster"
owner = "unspecified"
latlong = "unspecified"
url = "unspecified"
}
udp_send_channel {
#mcast_join = 239.2.11.71
host = address_of_logstash_server
port = 8649
ttl = 1
}
tcp_accept_channel {
port = 8649
}
I then restart all the daemons and configured logstash appropriately. By so doing, ganglia metrics where been collected by logstash.

Next I wanted to send my ganglia metrics without starting gmetad.conf. That is directly sending metrics to logstash without passing through gmetad.conf. I have given a try as in the configuration below.
In gmond.conf
cluster {
name = "unspecified"
owner = "unspecified"
latlong = "unspecified"
url = "unspecified"
}
udp_send_channel {
#mcast_join = 239.2.11.71
host = address_of_logstash_server
port = 8649
ttl = 1
}
tcp_accept_channel {
host = address_of_logstash_server
port = 8649
}
After stopping the gmetad.conf daemons I had nothing been displayed by logstash. Where am I going wrong.
Any helps will be welcoming.
Thanks.

[berrytchaks]

Thanks anyway. But nevertheless I manage to get it work.
The trick was to remove the host attribute in the tag tcp_accept_channel and change the cluster name to "unspecified".
ie
tcp_accept_channel {
port = 8649
}
and
cluster {
name = "unspecified"
owner = "unspecified"
latlong = "unspecified"
url = "unspecified"
}
Hope this helps somebody in the future!!!