[collectd] Which plug-ins support collection interval on a per-plugin basis feature introduced from 5.2

[andrewbooty .]

Hi Marc

Yes you are completely right!

 I had referred to a plug-in synopsis which had put the Interval setting
within the <plugin ..> block .
 As you say the Interval needs to be added by creating a block for the
loadplugin section i.e. <LoadPlugin cpu>... I tried this for cpu ethstat
etc and now works as expected.

I should have read the synopsis in the manpage for collectd.conf more
carefully!

Many Thanks
Andy



On 10 May 2014 22:20, Marc Fournier <marc.fournier at camptocamp.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Excerpts from andrewbooty .'s message of 2014-05-09 23:22:22 +0200:
> > I've been testing the 5.4.1 release of collectd and assumed that most
> core
> > plug-ins now supported the Interval feature to override the global
> setting.
> > For ethstat, interface and table this hasn't been implemented yet. So
> > wondering if there is a list of which plug-ins do currently support their
> > own interval settings. I could check the source code to see if Interval
> is
> > included in the callback function. But if Interval support was included
> in
> > say the wiki  plugin table that would be helpful.
>
> *All* the plugins support custom intervals since 5.2.0. This is how you
> have to load a plugin with a non-default interval:
>
>   <LoadPlugin df>
>     Interval 3600
>   </LoadPlugin>
>
> What is a bit confusing, is that some plugins implement this or some
> similar behaviour themselves for various reasons.
>
> https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd.conf.5.shtml#plugin_netapp
> is an example of such a plugin.
>
> So writing something like this *could* work for some plugins, but is not
> the correct way of using this feature:
>
>   LoadPlugin df
>   <Plugin df>
>     Interval 3600
>   </Plugin>
>
> Could there be some misunderstanding on your side ? Or do you have
> reasons to believe there's something wrong with the ethstat, interface
> and table plugins and not the others ?
>
> Marc
>



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