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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Jerry. i’m not sure i understand the reason though…I don’t think you mean sending data from different plugins at different intervals, right? Because in the conf file interval appears to be overridable at the plugin level:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>#----------------------------------------------------------------------------#<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'># Interval at which to query values. This may be overwritten on a per-plugin #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'># base by using the 'Interval' option of the LoadPlugin block: #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'># <LoadPlugin foo> #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'># Interval 60 #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'># </LoadPlugin> #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>#----------------------------------------------------------------------------#<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>#Interval 10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So, why run more than one even for this reason?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mahesh<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jerry Lombardo [mailto:jl4472@columbia.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 13, 2017 5:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> Mahesh Subramanian<br><b>Cc:</b> collectd@verplant.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [collectd] one collectd per host<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>You can run more than one if you're sending the data at different intervals. But generally one daemon perhost and whatever plugins you'd like. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6FA8DC;background:white'>Jerry Lombardo</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Ld. Infrastructure Engineer | Infrastructure Services.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Columbia University Information Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Office: 212-85<b>3-0485</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><img width=200 height=35 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://cuit.columbia.edu/sites/all/themes/ias/ascuit/images/logo.png"><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Mahesh Subramanian <<a href="mailto:mahesh.x.subramanian@oracle.com" target="_blank">mahesh.x.subramanian@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi experts,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Trying to understand deployment aspect of collectd. Is the recommended configuration to run 1 collectd process per host or vm? Or is there any reason to run more than one? Would appreciate your inputs on this if you could kindly share.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Mahesh<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>collectd mailing list<br><a href="mailto:collectd@verplant.org">collectd@verplant.org</a><br><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.verplant.org_listinfo_collectd&d=DwMFaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PQcxBKCX5YTpkKY057SbK10&r=4Crlb0FHXOtWxoGIMkQbvUQ8I8wiTB-aHoxkr5jDDSs&m=jABOr-z-yDDLEEd93KfxkRssE8jn1r7dPhhTlpuMuD4&s=GtGhL9gvs_It_fNf-fSYC0aZ01QHcgiLvAft5-9ZCpU&e=" target="_blank">https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>