[collectd] Patch for collectd-nagios.c for tcp sockets

Florian Forster octo at verplant.org
Wed Oct 21 10:51:59 CEST 2009


Hi Andre,

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 04:50:50PM +0200, Andre Arnold wrote:
> Wouldn't it be useful if you can use an unix or a tcp socket? Or could
> it cause unexpected problems?

if we change that, hordes of Nagios users will try to stone us because
their monitoring installation lit up like a christmas tree ;)

Seriously though, I don't think that'd be a big problem, but it'd be a
backwards incompatible change nontheless. Besides, where do you want to
connect *to*? The TCP sockets thingy was implemented to be equipped for
the future, but to my knowledge noone has improved the “netcmd”
plugin [0] to be ready for inclusion yet, so there isn't actually any
server code who could handle the connection.

Regards,
—octo

[0] <http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap#NetCmd_plugin>
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