Package: collectd-core Severity: wishlist collectd generates "notifications" internally, and its notify_email plugin provides a notification handler that will send an email for each one.
I prefer notifications to turn into syslog entries, so that even if there are a hundred notifications all at once, I'll only get one email from logcheck at the end of the hour. This can be done by hand using NotificationExec, but I think this functionality would be useful to be built-in as a C plugin. FYI, here's what I'm doing now: <Threshold> <Type "df"> DataSource "used" WarningMax 80 FailureMax 90 Percentage true </Type> </Threshold> LoadPlugin exec <Plugin exec> NotificationExec "nobody:nogroup" "/etc/collectd/notify-syslog.sh" </Plugin> where the wrapper script exists mainly to discard the "headers" and log only the "message" part: #!/bin/sh while read x y do case "$x$y" in '') exec logger -t collectd${severity+" $severity" -p user."$severity"};; Severity:WARNING) severity=warning;; Severity:OKAY) severity=notice;; Severity:FAILURE) severity=err;; esac done The result is servicable, if suboptimal: 2011-07-07T17:41:33.555808+10:00 hugin collectd warning: Host omega.cyber.com.au, plugin df type df (instance srv-lxc-alamo): Data source "used" is currently 852054016.000000. That is above the warning threshold of 80.000000%. 2011-07-07T17:41:33.557689+10:00 hugin collectd warning: Host omega.cyber.com.au, plugin df type df (instance srv-apt): Data source "used" is currently 232933896192.000000. That is above the warning threshold of 80.000000%. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org