<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 June 2011 08:29, XANi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xani666@gmail.com">xani666@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:57:58 +1000, Amos Shapira<br>
<<a href="mailto:amos.shapira@gmail.com">amos.shapira@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
Hi<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> To my surprise, when I looked for a collectd plugin to graph<br>
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_count (a file which<br>
> contains a gauge integer of current number of entries in the<br>
> ip_conntrack table), I didn't see anything which can do this in the<br>
> list of plugins.<br>
><br>
> What am I missing? It must be a very common use of collectd but going<br>
> through the list of plugins nothing seem to provide this.<br>
</div></div><a href="http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:ConnTrack" target="_blank">http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:ConnTrack</a> ? :)<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks. That's an obvious one :^).<br><br>
A colleague pointed me to this right after I sent my question but it crashes for us on CentOS 5.5.<br><br>We might debug this but in general I'm a bit surprised there isn't a module to just read a single number from just any file, is there?<br>
<br>--Amos<br></div></div></div>