Ahh, quite interesting I had always assumed that with PUTVAL and INTERVAL it ran at that interval as well. Good to know!
Thanks! -- Scott M. Likens Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > Yes now its clear what u meant ;) > > Normal exec does not work in that way too. > If your script exit after giving value (with interval=something) it > will rerun it every 10s (or whatever is global interval set up) but > resulting RRD file will have step equal to interval u've send in > message (so if you set interval in PUTVAL to 60 it will run script > every 10s but it will average values over 60s in RRD file > > So what you want is script like > while sleep 120; do > stuff > done > > > > 2011/10/26 Scott M. Likens <sc...@likens.us (mailto:sc...@likens.us)>: > > Actually I think I asked this incorrectly and that is partially why that > > made no sense. > > > > Currently using Exec to run a script that sends PUTNOTIF and it seems with > > that INTERVAL is not being honored. > > > > echo "PUTNOTIF time=$(date '+%s') INTERVAL=120 TYPE=derpl severity=broken > > message=\"derp de dee\" > > > > runs as often as other Exec resources even though the INTERVAL is specified > > otherwise. > > > > Does that help? > > > > > > On Oct 22, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > > > > > 2011/10/21 Scott M. Likens <sc...@likens.us (mailto:sc...@likens.us)>: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > It does not appear that ExecNotify supports INTERVAL like the Exec > > > > plugin does? > > > > http://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd-exec.5.shtml > > > > > > > > Is there a reason for that? > > > Why it would need it ? Notifications are supposed to be sent when > > > something happens, not every x seconds so interval does not make any > > > sense. > > > > > > > > > > !DSPAM:4ea84e4a95801804284693!
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