Hello, Another good habit is to make use of the generic types (derive, gauge, percent, etc), so you don't have to edit types.db that often:
host/my_custom_app/gauge-metric_foo1.rrd host/my_custom_app/gauge-metric_foo2.rrd host/my_custom_app/derive-metric_bar1.rrd Thanks Kimo ----- Original Message ----- > From: Yves Mettier <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 11:58 PM > Subject: Re: [collectd] Re-reading types.db and/or collectd.conf withouting > restart collectd > > I agree... > See the comments of https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/136 : this is > not > a new issue. > > About types.db, I suggest that you do not change it, but add your own file. > In collectd.conf, you can specify more than one types.db file. > When you upgrade collectd, you can replace the unmodified types.db with the > new > one and keep your addons in another file. > Of course, this will not solve your problem about restarting collectd when > you > make a change. > > Regards, > Yves > > Le 2013-01-09 19:44, Daniel Hilst a écrit : >> I have a problem. Every time I add a new type to types.db I have to >> restart collectd. This lead to my nagios dashboard being fully red. >> Any ideas of how re-read types.db without restarting? >> >> I've this problem too while editing collectd.conf, but this is less >> frequent.. I know that collectd keeps a AVL Tree cache, that >> collectd-nagios reads from unix socket. Keeping cache entries between >> restarts would solve that. What you people think? >> >> When I say restart I mean receiving a SIGHUP. >> >> Cheers! > > -- - Homepage - http://ymettier.free.fr - > - GPG key - http://ymettier.free.fr/gpg.txt - > - C en action - http://ymettier.free.fr/livres/C_en_action_ed2.html - > - Guide Survie C - http://www.pearson.fr/livre/?GCOI=27440100673730 - > > _______________________________________________ > collectd mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd > _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
