anchor.diff:  For this to work, the packets from Ganglia need to have a large enough TTL to be seen on the host where you run pTrans.
   
   Excerpt from gmond.conf:
  -
   ----
   udp_send_channel {
    mcast_join = 239.2.11.71
  
positive.code: 
  You need to configure syslog to forward you the messages.
  For this you need to edit `/ec/syslog.conf` and add a line like this:
  
    *.info          @127.0.0.1:5140
  
  (the facility and severity may vary depending on how your application is logging the metrics)
  
  ==== Manually testing
  
  On a *nix command line you can run
  
    $ logger -p local3.info "type=metric thread.count=7 thread.active=5 heap.permgen.size=20000000"
  
  to add entries to syslog for testing purposes.
  
  
  === Graphite
  
  The converter also accepts Graphite plaintext format
  
      path value timestamp_in_s
  
  or with multiple entries per message
  
      path1 value1 timestamp_in_s1
      path2 value2 timestamp_in_s2
  
  === Ganglia
  
  
negative.code: = ptrans - An Hawkular Metrics proxy
  :type: article
  
  This is a proxy server taking in metrics data in several common formats and emitting
  them as REST requests into Hawkular Metrics backend for storage.
  
  == Supported input formats
  
  === Syslog
  
  This module contains a simple proxy server that also listens on UDP port 5140
  for syslog messages. If a message is of the format:
  ----
  type=metric thread.count=7 thread.active=5 heap.permgen.size=20000000
  ----
  Then it is taken and the individual key-value-pairs are broken apart and
  sent as individual metrics to a hawkular-metrics rest server. The timestamp
  is the current time on the proxy when the udp packet was received.
  