[collectd] Issue with collectd server on Ubuntu 12.04. LTS

[Yves Mettier]

Hello,

1/ check the permissions of your /var/lib/collectd/rrd (and 
/var/lib/collectd)
2/ collectd sends data with UDP protocol. So tcpdump...

3/ enable the unix socket on your collectd (for example 
/var/run/collectd/collectd-unixsock)
echo "listval" | socat - /var/run/collectd/collectd-unixsock
Empty on the agent ? -> find out why the agent does not collectd...
No data from the agent on the server ? -> find out why the server does 
not get the data from the agent
everything OK on the socket ? -> find out why you cannot write on the 
disk (rrdtool/rrdcached problem ?)

apt-get install socat (if not installed yet)

Regards,
Yves


Le 2013-07-25 15:14, Dejan Menges a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new here, but I'm not new with Collectd. Using it for quite a some 
> time
> on CentOS, and must say didn't have any major issues yet.
> 
> But, now I need it on Ubuntu LTS. Trying to install just two machines 
> with
> default plugins, in local network (on Rackspace) where, using network
> plugin, one is going to be client and another one is going to be 
> server.
> 
> So there's no firewalls, security, anything in between, and to avoid 
> for
> this PoC any permissions issue everything is running as root user.
> 
> So my problem is that everything works fine locally, but data is not
> shipped from client to server. I went up to tcpdump and checking 
> traffic
> from one machine to other, and I see that it's sending data regularly, 
> it's
> not exceeding window size, etc, but nothing is written in
> /var/lib/collectd/rrd/ from client machine on server machine.
> 
> I tested this with 4.10 (package from precise repo), 5.2 and 5.3 but 
> lost
> any more idea how to try to narrow this down. Was also trying simple 
> stuff
> like enabling just one simple plugin but (as I didn't built it, and
> obviously it's not built with with debug enabled) neither info or 
> notice
> log levels are not giving me anything from Collectd neither on client 
> or
> server.
> 
> Any advice will be appreciated (as in this particular moment these two
> machines are not best candidates to set build environment on them, but
> that's also last resort).
> 
> Cheers,
> Dejan
> 
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