[collectd] collectd on nexentaOS

[Randy Bias]

The other bit that is missing is zfs stats, which are in kstat I  
think, but may need some tweaking.

Sent from my mobile device; please forgive any typos

On Jun 3, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Florian Forster <octo at verplant.org> wrote:

> Hey Dmitry,
>
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Dmitry Yusupov wrote:
>> you could get SSH access to Nexenta ZFS zone by requesting account at
>> #nexenta IRC.
>
> who do I talk to? And what IRC network is that?
>
>> From what I found, Solaris support is still quite basic, that is
>> comparing to the Linux support. Is that still the case or you guys
>> ported all the plug-ins to Solaris already ?
>
> The ``basic'' plugins, such as CPU and memory utilization, interface
> counters and disk throughput should work under Solaris. Many of the
> newer plugin use external libraries, such as libOpenIPMI, so if they
> work under Solaris or not depends on the availability of these
> libraries. Other plugins communicate with a daemon of some sort using
> standard Berkeley sockets - that's portable, too. There are some  
> plugins
> that only make sense under Linux, such as the iptables and netlink
> plugins. Others, such as `apple_sensors' will not work either, of  
> course
> ;)
>
> The list of plugins that could run under Solaris but don't is actually
> quite short ;) From the top of my head, I think the following plugins
> could do with some additional Solaris support:
> - battery
> - cpufreq
> - entropy
> - irqs
> - nfs
> - processes
> - serial
> - tcpconns
> - vmem
> - wireless
> (This list is probably incomplete and/or incorrect!)
>
> So, the most interesting plugins should be available and the more
> specialized plugins should be possible to port - given the system
> provides the information.
>
> Regards,
> -octo
> -- 
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