On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:33 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 23:40 +0200, Marco Mornati wrote: > > > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I'm thinking about a way to solve a thing I want to do through func in > >> Symbolic. > >> > >> I want to insert the machine "metric" analysis... so user could show a > >> graph for memory usage, processor usage, ... > >> The first idea it's impossible to realize because I need to call each > >> minion every "seconds" to get all information I need... and this could > >> saturate my network with "unuseful" requests. > >> > >> So here my second solution. > >> I want to create a module that will work like a collector of information > >> on machine and it will store all information in a "local database" (or > >> over a file or something different) and when user want to show graphs > >> for a particular machine, certmaster call func minion module to get > >> "all" information from it. > >> > >> I talked with DeHaan sometimes ago about database in func and I know > >> that he doesn't want database!! > >> So I have two question: > >> - Can I create a database for a func module? :) > >> - Could be a useful function in func... or it's just something that only > >> symbolic will use? > >> > >> > > > > It might be easier to make a func module that let's you pull data out of > > collectd. > > > > -sv > > > > > +1. > > I like this much better than an SNMP approach as suggested later in this > thread. Let collectd gather it's bits and leverage the probes that are > already there and just use Func to extract it if desired. collectd does a nice job of dumping data into rrd dbs so you can extract blocks of data later. a func module to pull arbitrary info out of collectd shouldn't be very hard. -sv _______________________________________________ Func-list mailing list Func-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/func-list
