[collectd] rrdtool plugin: no LAST?

[Bruno Prémont]

On Sun, 29 July 2012 Mark <gajillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. Is there an official patch to support LAST or is it a
> roll-your-own? Do I need to patch just the server or all of the clients as
> well? We're using the EPEL version of collectd and I'd rather not vary from
> that for the clients.

Patching server only would be sufficient, the client's don't even need
rrdtool/rrdcached plugins.

Bruno


> Mark
> 
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:42 AM, <collectd at faxm0dem.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:56:54PM -0700, Mark wrote:
> > > Most of our Cacti graphs use LAST to display the current value. Am I
> > > missing something obvious or is LAST just not supported?
> >
> > You are correct in the assumption that neither rrdtool nor rrdcached
> > plugins
> > create LAST RRAs for you. There has been some discussion to improve these
> > plugins' configurability, and you're most welcome to +1 this. As a
> > workaround, you can either create the rrds on your own, or use some contrib
> > scripts in rrdtool dist to add the RRAs tou your existing files.
> >
> > however, the best would probably be to patch collectd (it's an easy fix).
> >
> > Cheers