Hi,<br><br>I was trying to configure the rrdtool plugin to spread out writes to rrd files by setting the "RandomTimeout" value in rrdtool plugin configuration. <br>But I got a messaging saying "Plugin `rrdtool' did not register for value `RandomTimeout'." when collectd were started. I did some more research and<br>
it seems that the RandomTimeout patch might be added after the rpm package I am using was built. I am using the latest collectd rpm I can found for CentOS,<br>which is collectd-4.7.2-1.el5.rf.src.rpm and was built on Wed 29 Jul 2009.<br>
<br>If the above is true , could anyone tell me where to find the patch and how to apply the patch to my rpm ( or if it's not a patch,<br>How can I add this functionality to the collectd rpm I am using)?<br><br>Otherwise, does anyone know what's wrong with my configuration? Here is the configuration of rrdtool:<br>
LoadPlugin rrdtool<br><Plugin rrdtool><br> DataDir "/usr/var/lib/collectd/rrd"<br> RRARows 2880<br> RRATimespan 259200<br> CacheTimeout 900<br> CacheFlush 3600<br>
RandomTimeout 10<br></Plugin><br><br><br>On the other side, I also want the collection of the data be staggered so that the monitoring won't all occur in bursts.<br>Does collectd have this capability?<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>Jie<br>