>>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:51 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kostas Georgiou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 :)
OK, this is done in trunk and proposed for backport to 3.1.2. Test it out and
provide feedback please.
Brad
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