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You should have a Ganglia gmond agent running on the machine where your JVM runs. The gmond sends a heartbeat to the Ganglia infrastructure, camel-ganglia can't send the heartbeat itself currently.
On most Linux systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and RHEL/CentOS with EPEL) you can just install the Ganglia agent package and it runs automatically using multicast configuration. You can configure it to use regular UDP unicast if you prefer.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml
for this component:
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