title: How do I exclude a monitoring server from ganglia reports?
body: <p>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:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mute = yes
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>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:</p>
  
  <pre><code>data_source "cluster" ec2-X-X-X-X.compute-1.amazonaws.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(with ec2-X-X-X-X.compute-1.amazonaws.com being the ec2 hostname of the admin instance)</p>
  
  <p>I thought setting <code>mute=yes</code> would remove it from the reports and gstat, but both still show the admin host (localhost) as dead.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to do this?</p>