[collectd] Chef recpie for collectd (was: http://collectd.org/temp/ContactMe.chef)

2013-02-08 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Miah, thanks for getting in touch. On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 02:08:21PM -0800, Miah Johnson wrote: > I'm the author of a chef cookbook that manages collectd. I'm not sure > if my cookbook is the source of your woes but I figured I'd drop you > an email. It looks like you're the author of `recip

Re: [collectd] Chef recpie for collectd (was: http://collectd.org/temp/ContactMe.chef)

2013-02-08 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Noah, On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 01:44:19AM -0800, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > I actually double-checked mine after seeing the notice posted since I > know a lot of people use it and I am only doing package installs so it > should't be hitting anything on your servers (unless you happen to > host an

Re: [collectd] Plugins values

2013-02-08 Thread Fabien Wernli
Hi, On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 01:33:19PM +0100, Frédéric Pégé wrote: > The load values are returned in 3 different values under the same item. > load/load. Values are longterm, shortterm and midterm. And I'm ok with that. Just my two cents on loadavg: IMHO it's totally useless to keep anything else

Re: [collectd] Plugins values

2013-02-08 Thread Frédéric Pégé
Hi, and thanks for the answer. As for the tendency, I would prefer the mutliple datasource way. I still don't get why all the values have to end in ".value", and be in separate "folders". But nevermind. As long as it is done the same way in every plugin, it's more logical. Can I help in any way po

Re: [collectd] Collectd timeinterval datarecording in RRDTool

2013-02-08 Thread Fabien Wernli
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 02:58:30PM +0100, Frederic Daguenet wrote: > Can you show the calculation in simple steps? You want 4 timespans, so you need to enumerate them in the config, e.g.: # first 3 days RRATimespan 259200 # the next 7 days RRATimespan 604800 # the fol

Re: [collectd] Plugins values

2013-02-08 Thread Fabien Wernli
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:56:08AM +0100, Frédéric Pégé wrote: > Can I help in any way possible ? > df, load, cpu, ... and other "standards" plugin are in C, right ? Yes, and the change is trivial. The decision to make incompatible changes isn't. ___ c

Re: [collectd] Plugins values

2013-02-08 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Friday, February 8, 2013, Frédéric Pégé wrote: > Hi, > and thanks for the answer. > As for the tendency, I would prefer the mutliple datasource way. I still > don't get why all the values have to end in ".value", and be in separate > "folders". But nevermind. > As long as it is done the same wa

Re: [collectd] Collectd timeinterval datarecording in RRDTool

2013-02-08 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Frederic, I believe Fabien Wernli's answer on the list should have everything you need. :-) Cheers, Lindsay On 8 February 2013 00:58, Frederic Daguenet wrote: > He Lindsay! > > Two days i try to calculate your values for RRARows and RRATimespan, > but i found not you way of calculation. > > C

Re: [collectd] Chef recpie for collectd (was: http://collectd.org/temp/ContactMe.chef)

2013-02-08 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Feb 8, 2013, at 1:37 AM, Florian Forster wrote: > Hi Miah, > > thanks for getting in touch. > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 02:08:21PM -0800, Miah Johnson wrote: >> I'm the author of a chef cookbook that manages collectd. I'm not sure >> if my cookbook is the source of your woes but I figured I'

Re: [collectd] Chef recpie for collectd

2013-02-08 Thread Miah Johnson
Hi Florian, A coworker and I wrote this cookbook months ago and needed functionality in the 5.x collectd branch that wasn't available in the distributions usual 4.x collectd branch. Primarily we were doing this to get the included graphite plugin. After reading through this discussion and taki

Re: [collectd] Chef recpie for collectd (was: http://collectd.org/temp/ContactMe.chef)

2013-02-08 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Feb 8, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Florian Forster wrote: > Hi Noah, > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 01:44:19AM -0800, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >> I actually double-checked mine after seeing the notice posted since I >> know a lot of people use it and I am only doing package installs so it >> should't be hit

Re: [collectd] Chef recpie for collectd

2013-02-08 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Miah, On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:31:14PM -0800, Miah Johnson wrote: > I think this is a problem in the 'ark' cookbook, which is what handles > the actually download/compile/install portion of the install. oh, alright. I was half expeting it to have some "only if changed" flag or so. > So I p