[collectd] No way to use collectd + bind plugin

[Stian Øvrevåge]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:18 PM, HYORDEY Julian
<julian.hyordey at trinaps.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Firstly, sorry for my english.. ;-)
>
> Well, my problem is I can't see the graph with bind plugin. Collectd and my
> bind server are one the same computer, on a public IP, what I want is
> connect to http://publicIP:8053 (from another computer) and see my beautiful
> graph. And from now, no way, what I see is just the common stats (what you
> can see when you just activate statistics-channels (like that :
> statistics-channels {inet 127.0.0.1 port 8053 allow {myzone;}; in
> named.conf)).
>
> I checked log, saw nothing. Are activated in my collectd.conf just bind
> plugin and rddtool plugin, nothing else, and bind plugin is configured like
> that :
>
> #<Plugin "bind">
> #       URL "http://localhost:8053/"
> #       OpCodes true
> #       QTypes true
> #
> #       ServerStats true
> #       ZoneMaintStats true
> #       ResolverStats false
> #       MemoryStats true
> #
> #       <View "_default">
> #               QTypes true
> #               ResolverStats true
> #               CacheRRSets true
> #
> #               Zone "127.in-addr.arpa/IN"
> #       </View>
> #</Plugin>
>
> note that I change local host by the public IP (did the same thing in the
> named.conf), no change too..
>
> Please, help.
>
> Julian
>
>
>
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You will never see graphs by connecting to the BIND-server on port
8053, only the XML statistics. You have to install a web-server and
have something to generate the graphs. How are you viewing the graphs
on the local computer?

Cheers, Stian