Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. 1. This SlackBuild is just going to build Ganglia without 'gmetad', which collects information from ganglia monitor clients, and writes them to RRD databases. If you want to enable this, you'll have to enable it with the OPT variable and 'gmetad' as value, then execute the build script as follows: OPT=gmetad ./ganglia.SlackBuild In order to build gmetad as part of this package, you'll need to have RRDTool installed. It is available from SlackBuilds.org. 2. The Ganglia web frontend is distributed as a separated SlackBuild: ganglia-web.