[collectd] apache and collectd plugin

[Florian Forster]

Hi Amit,

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:12:20PM +0530, Amit Gupta wrote:
> This is what I thought earlier but then I wasn't sure if the
> scoreboard output (along with legends) will always be present. I will
> probably re-look at the scoreboard output.

well, currently the detected server software is only *used* within the
scoreboard code, so if there is no scoreboard present, we don't need the
detection..

> > Oh, one more minor issue: The variable `sending' is submitted with
> > the instance “sending” on Apache and “write” on Lighttpd. Maybe it'd
> > be a good idea to unify this..
> 
> I have kept the type_instance (apache-scoreboard-<type_instance>) as
> per the legend definition in the mod_status output (which is why I
> didn't unify it), for instance, the legend 'W' stands for "sending
> reply"  in apache and "write" in lighttpd. Do you want it to be
> unified?

I'm unsure.. It'd probably make graphing and comparisons easier, but on
the other hand it's probably easier to understand the graphs when we
stick to the terms used by the software queried..

Regards,
-octo
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