[collectd] Bug#495936: "Redesign" of the Debian collectd package

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi Mariusz,

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:35:41PM +0200, XANi wrote:
> >on 2009-10-05 at 23:27:14
> >Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Raimund Sacherer wrote:
> > > * About the enPlugin disPlugin, i do not think the user will have a
> > > lot of benefit here.
> > >
> > > It's great if there are a bunch of plugins which do not really need
> > > configuration, if a (very) few packages need them it's ok, but if
> > > you *need* to configure every plugin it would be a little
> > > configuration nightmare.
> > 
> > That's what I fear as well. So, I guess, I'll just drop that idea ;-)
> > It probably makes much more sense to work on some nifty configuration
> > tool upstream but not even that might be of much benefit (especially
> > when compared to the required efforts) …
> Hmm maybe make 4 confing files:
> * Global (Interval, basedir, plugindir TypesDB etc).
> * Input plugins
> * Output plugins (rrdtool, csv etc.)
> * Filters

What about plugins that can be put into more than one category? E.g.,
the "network" plugin is an input and output plugin.

> Then for example Admin could use same output plugin config for all
> nodes and tweak others per-node.

I'm not sure if admins, in general, would really benefit from that. In
most cases, the admins will have to adopt the config anyway, so they
won't benefit from a rather general split like that (imho).

Cheers,
Sebastian

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