[collectd] Using GAUGE values with exec pluggin

[jeff nad]

Haha !

types.db does all the magic :-)

Thank you Sebastian,  I got my first "Hello World" with collectd.

Jean-Francois


>From: Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org>
>To: collectd at verplant.org
>Subject: Re: [collectd] Using GAUGE values with exec pluggin
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:21:20 +0100
>
>Hi Jean-Francois,
>
>On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:23:19PM -0500, jeff nad wrote:
> > Being new to collectd and rrdtool,  I tried submitting gauge values via 
>the
> > exec pluggin like the exec-smartctl example, but the rrd files contain
> > counters.
> >
> > My script output this every 5 seconds to stdout:
> >
> > qcaste01/cpu_usage/cpu-user interval=5 N:5
> > qcaste01/cpu_usage/cpu-system interval=5 N:12
> > qcaste01/cpu_usage/cpu-total interval=5 N:17
>
>The identifier looks like <host>/<plugin>-<p_instance>/<type>-<t_instance>
>(see collectd-exec(5)). <host> should be quite self-explanatory. <plugin> 
>and
><p_instance> are basically identifiers to specify convenient names for the
>collected data - you can choose whatever you like. <type> is the only part
>that has to be taken special care of: it identifies the data set registered
>with collectd - the default definitions can be found in the file types.db. 
>In
>your case, you're using the type named "cpu" which is defined as a counter
>value in types.db. <t_instance>, again, is just a convenient name to
>distinguish multiple instances of the same type within the same plugin
>instance.
>
>I hope this has not been too confusing... ;-)
>
> > excuse the newbie question....
>
>Don't worry - everyone has to start at some point :-)
>
>Cheers,
>Sebastian
>
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