[collectd] [PATCH] OpenVPN plugin

[Florian Forster]

Hi Doug,

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 01:48:47PM -0500, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> > thanks a lot for your plugin :) Unfortunately, my version of OpenVPN
> > (2.0.9-4etch1) doesn't print client lists yet :/
> 
> Hmm, is that due to version or config?
> I thought it has been around since 2004.10.28 -- Version 2.0-beta15:

Config: The client-list comes from the `multi' module, which I don't
use; I'm using a simple point-to-point setup.

I only get the basic statistics (anything up to and including `Auth read
bytes') and the statistics provided by the LZO module:
-- 8< --
 OpenVPN STATISTICS
 Updated,Sat Jan 10 13:38:39 2009
 TUN/TAP read bytes,40890145
 TUN/TAP write bytes,263550002
 TCP/UDP read bytes,176683637
 TCP/UDP write bytes,46685004
 Auth read bytes,263551082
 pre-compress bytes,19441208
 post-compress bytes,18400792
 pre-decompress bytes,140660826
 post-decompress bytes,243595819
 END
-- >8 --

I think the TUN/TAP and TCP/UDP stats are sufficiently handled by the
`interface' and `netlink' plugins. Do you (or anybody else) think the
LZO statistics (such as the compression ratio) are worth collecting?

> Yes, this is correct.  The options can also be in the
> openvpn/server.conf:
> status-version 2
> status openvpn-status.log

Yeah, but I think it's okay to leave that to the openvpn(8) manual page
to explain ;)

Regards,
-octo
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