Re: [collectd] New aggregator plugin basic_aggregator (#136)

2012-10-13 Thread Fabien Wernli
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:27:25AM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: most/many/all parts of collectd actually support reconfigure as people might expect too much from SIGHUP else. agreed Just to be sure: the main collectd thread has no control over its child threads in the current implementation?

Re: [collectd] Modbus plugin seems to read garbage values

2012-10-13 Thread Fabien Wernli
Hi, On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:30:32PM +0200, Gerry Demaret wrote: I've been playing with the modbus plugin to read the values from a Schneider Electric PowerLogic EGX100. I'm using Debian testing which has collectd 5.1. Are you sure the device is sending correct values? We've got an EGX400,

Re: [collectd] New aggregator plugin basic_aggregator (#136)

2012-10-13 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:51:34AM +0200, Fabien Wernli wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:27:25AM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: most/many/all parts of collectd actually support reconfigure as people might expect too much from SIGHUP else. agreed Just to be sure: the main collectd

[collectd] RFC: implementing reload/reconfigure (was: New aggregator plugin basic_aggregator (#136))

2012-10-13 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi again, just a few more notes / detail … On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:11:24AM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: Now, my idea is to introduce a reconfigure callback that allows to reconfigure a single plugin. This could then be exposed, for example, through the 'unixsock' plugin. Example:

Re: [collectd] Modbus plugin seems to read garbage values

2012-10-13 Thread Gerry Demaret
On 13/10/12 11:06, Fabien Wernli wrote: Are you sure the device is sending correct values? We've got an EGX400, and it's been a real PITA ever since we've comissioned it. We ended up writing our own plugin retrieving the data via ftp/http from the box. Then again, I've never used float type for