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

[Arnaud Quette]

2008/11/17 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> 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.

the patch create an upsrrd daemon, based upon the upslog code.
the diff between both is not huge, and having an upslog with RRD
support shouldn't be hard.
and even more knowing that I've made few things (m4 and configure.in mostly)

interested in looking at that?

Arnaud