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

[Charles Lepple]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!

I don't know - I haven't tried the upslog patch at all.

I guess I should look at the upslog stuff before commenting on it.

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- Charles Lepple