[collectd] collectd question

[Stuart Cracraft]

I've chosen to just leave the code as-is.

If collectdctl doesn't indicate any available data, the plugin is
assumed to be missing or not installed and a warning is raised.

On May 6, 2014, at 5:53 AM, bill <bilsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> or turn on the csv plugin ;)
> 
> 
> Bill Schwanitz
> 
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>> On May 6, 2014, at 3:10 AM, Yves Mettier <ymettier at free.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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