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

[Andre Arnold]

Hi,

hmm i run netcmd plugin and the collectd-nagios over tcp successfully :).
Okay its
a very little test setup at the moment but it works...

If you would change this the only difference would be that the user must
explicit say
to what he would like to connect to, unix or tcp.

Best regards
Andi

2009/10/21 Florian Forster <octo at verplant.org>

> 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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