[collectd] Different OS for server and client

[Wallace, Ann]

On 2/4/10 12:24 AM, "Florian Forster" <octo at verplant.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:39:43PM -0800, Wallace, Ann wrote:
>>> Are *all* values sent from Linux to Solaris NaN or just some of
>>> them?
>> 
>> Not all of the values from Linux to Solaris are NaN. CPU, Disk i/o,
>> network all work, df, users, load, uptime do not work.
> 
> The former are all "counter" values (transferred as (unsigned) integer.)
> while the latter are all "gauge" values (transferred as doubles).
> 
>>> Did you cross-compile the daemon?
>> 
>> I did not.
> 
> Do you, by any chance, still have the "config.log" file available? This
> file is created by the "configure" script and should be in the "top
> build directory", usually that's the root directory of the collectd
> sources.

I do not but I can rebuild to get the config.log if that will help. Is there
something in the log file I should be looking for?

> 
>> Oddly, when I send Solaris (sparc) to Linux I see the UDP traffic but
>> the files never get created, and the user running collectd does have
>> permission to write to the rrd directory.
> 
> Could you capture a couple of packets for me? I think around ten packets
> should be sufficient, but it'd be great if only packets sent by a
> Solaris machine were included.

xxx and yyy are both Solaris.

07:33:26.311630 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 918
07:33:26.313175 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 884
07:33:26.314633 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 891
07:33:26.316461 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 888
07:33:26.318318 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 879
07:33:26.320354 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 884
07:33:26.322436 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 916
07:33:26.324475 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 881
07:33:26.326532 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 879
07:33:27.050612 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 885
07:33:27.052888 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 870
07:33:27.053793 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 856
07:33:27.055366 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 867
07:33:27.057475 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 917
07:33:27.059653 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 891
07:33:27.061945 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 903
07:33:27.064199 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 900
07:33:27.066138 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 886
07:33:36.312035 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 881
07:33:36.313697 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 897
07:33:36.315318 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 912
07:33:36.317367 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 915
07:33:36.319725 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 879
07:33:36.321624 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 884
07:33:36.323751 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 875
07:33:36.325783 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 914
07:33:36.328686 IP xxx.nike.com.34821 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 886
07:33:37.051256 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 915
07:33:37.052837 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 879
07:33:37.054170 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 902
07:33:37.055911 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 909
07:33:37.057888 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 904
07:33:37.059414 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 906
07:33:37.061073 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 897
07:33:37.062860 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 900
07:33:37.064916 IP yyy.nike.com.40770 > 10.10.111.10.25826: UDP, length 881

> 
> Totally forgot to ask in my last email: Which version(s) are you using?

collectd 4.9.1

> 
> Regards,
> -octo