[collectd] collectd question

[Yves Mettier]

OK, I understand.
When I have this problem, I use tcpdump.
It will not tell you if the primary collectd server collects the data (I 
know no other way than collectdctl or "nc -U" on the unix socket, which 
is the same), but at least you will see if your client is sending data 
and if your server is receiving it.

When tcpdump says that your server is receiving the data, you really 
have to go inside the collectd process to check and the 2 ways I know 
are 1/ collectdctl and "nc -U" and 2/ hacking tools like strace or 
systemd. Of course I only use "nc -U".

Good luck !

Regards,
Yves

Le 2014-05-06 08:45, Stuart Cracraft a écrit :
> Hi Yves!
> 
> We are speaking here of on the primary collectd server, not the clients
> where the data is being collected, hence the lsof could only be run 
> remotely.
> 
> We're looking for something entirely local on the primary collectd 
> server, not
> farming out the question to the clients.
> 
> The only method I know of on the server (besides ssh/rsh/telnet/etc) is
> to run collectdctl for the particular item and if it doesn't show, then 
> assume
> the data is not available.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On May 5, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Yves Mettier <ymettier at free.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Use lsof (lsof -p <pid>) to know what plugins are loaded.
>> 
>> This is NOT a way to find out if a plugin exists and is collecting.
>> But it IS a way to know that a plugin is NOT loaded and NOT collecting 
>> if you do not find it in the list.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Yves
>> 
>> Le 2014-05-06 01:23, Stuart Cracraft a écrit :
>>> On a collectd server, other than running collectdctl to find out if 
>>> plugin ABC
>>> exists and is collecting for a given collectd client of the collectd 
>>> server,
>>> is there any other approach from the server to determine if the 
>>> plugin
>>> is collecting?
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> 
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