On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:08:29PM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote:
> Actually this issue really isn't that hard solve. The python
> capability is all implemented in the C module mod_python. When
> mod_python's init() function is called, it simply reads the python
> module directory from it's configuration and then starts a readdir()
> loop on that location. Anything that it finds in the python module
> directory that has an extension of .py, mod_python loads and calls the
> module's metric_init() function.
>
> This behavior could be changed by simply adding a "Disabled=yes" or
> "Status=disabled" type of directive to the module{} section for the
> python module in it's configuration. Since gmond has already read and
> parsed the entire gmond.conf including all 'included' .conf's, whether
> a python module is loaded or not should be a simple matter of looking
> for the module{} section for a specific module and checking to see if
> it is enabled or disabled. If mod_python finds a .py file for a
> module but can not find a corresponding module{} section in the
> configuration, the enabled status is assumed to be 'disabled'
> automatically. Otherwise the enabled state is assumed to be 'enabled'
> unless otherwise indicated. If a python module is determined to be
> disabled, mod_python would not load it and obviously the python
> module's metric_init() would never be called.
>
> Does that work?
This will be perfect actually :)
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