[Nut-upsdev] Opening the 2.4 commit fest (RRD)

[Arnaud Quette]

2008/11/16 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> The remainder, until the -pre stage, will be:
>>>> - the Powerman support (through the powerman driver) for more PDUs
>>>> - the possible RRD integration into upslog
>>>
>>> It would be nice to have native RRD support in upslog, but we may also
>>> want to point people to collectd - the NUT support in collectd is very
>>> easy to use, and collectd does a good job of monitoring other system
>>> statistics at the same time.
>>
>> I'm not very knowledgeable there!
>> is rrd's end collectd? if so, we can discard this patch and point collectd!
>> otherwise, I have a few things underhand for RRD (m4, pkginfo contributed, ...)
>
> collectd is a standalone daemon to collect statistics, and its NUT
> plugin connects to upsd via libupsclient.
>
> The three main outputs of collectd are CSV, RRD and a network feed to
> another collectd instance. There is also a feed to Nagios, and some
> threshold detection and notification support. I have mainly been
> experimenting with the RRD support.
>
> http://collectd.org/images/architecture-schematic.png
>
> image from: http://collectd.org/features.shtml

thanks for these info.
so, do you think that it's worth keeping the upslog patch?
or simply relying on collectd with RRD output is fine?
since I'm using neither, I just want to be sure that we don't shoot on
our users feets!

>>> From the NUT perspective , an interesting set of statistics is the
>>> correlation between UPS load and CPU utilization.
>>
>> interesting. I've just been invited to FossCamp / UDS, next december
>> at the Googleplex, to talk about that ;-)
>> green / cloud computing, power management, ...
>>
>> this should be a great deal for nut improvement and integration (in
>> Ubuntu at least, though I hope there will be some other distro guys!)
>
> Excellent!

indeed ^_^

-- Arnaud