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Sebastian,<br>
<br>
sorry, I did mean to reply to the list, but I made a mistake.<br>
<br>
It's quite possible that collectd is not apt to do what I want.<br>
<br>
The serial device logs its activity through a serial port.<br>
If I had a serial printer connected, it would print:<br>
<br>
DD/MM/YY,HH:MM:SS,USER,EVENT<br>
<br>
Now, I could direct connect an old pc, open the serial port, and
collect the data in a file, but it seems a bit an overkill to maintain
a host just to do that.<br>
<br>
On the same lan, I have a Linux host that could do the job, so here's
where the serial to ethernet converter comes in.<br>
<br>
I just want to append the string that comes out from the serial device,
in a text file, on the remote host.<br>
<br>
-Gian<br>
<br>
<br>
Sebastian Harl wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Gian,
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:50:17AM +0200, GianLuca Sarto wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The serial output is a string formatted as a csv file:
DD/MM/YY,HH:MM:SS,USER,EVENT
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The unixsock plugin does not understand that kind of data. It defines
its own protocol that has to be used when submitting data to it.
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<pre wrap="">If the string is appended to a text file, I could view it with Apache,
or later import it in an XLS or mySQL table.
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Well, collectd is not about providing generic means to process random
(text) data but rather about processing "streams" of time-series data,
i.e. numeric data associated with time stamps.
I'm still not entirely sure what you're trying to do. Maybe you should
tell us a little bit more about your setup but I suspect that collectd
is not what you're looking for.
What you _could_ do though is to come up with a new plugin (written in
C, Perl or Java) that provides a socket and parses the output of your
converter and then submits that data to collectd.
HTH,
Sebastian
PS: Btw., did you reply off-list on purpose? If not, do you mind if I
bounce your E-mail and my response to the list?
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