The line protocol in the error is incorrect. Strings in fields must be double-quoted, or else the system tries to parse them as a boolean. It should be PDUname="Rack".
Sounds like a bug with the plugin. Can you open an issue <https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/new> on the repo, please? On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 3:36 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to have Telegraf use the SNMP input plugin to capture some > different metrics from an APC PDU. > > Some of these are standard counters and they work fine, but other oids are > either text or timetics and these seem to cause an error when the metric is > entered into InfluxDB. > > Using Telegraf & InfluxDB version 1.0.0 beta 2 on Centos 6.8 > > Config in telegraf.conf: > > [[inputs.snmp]] > > [[inputs.snmp.host]] > address = "10.1.1.3:161" > community = "public" > collect = ["PDUname"] > > [[inputs.snmp.get]] > name = "PDUname" > oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0" > > > telegraf.log file: > > 2016/07/16 19:02:50 Output [influxdb] buffer fullness: 2 / 10000 metrics. > Total gathered metrics: 2. Total dropped metrics: 0. > 2016/07/16 19:02:50 ERROR: {"error":"unable to parse > 'PDUname,host=monitor,snmp_host=10.1.1.3 PDUname=Rack 1468661560000000000': > invalid boolean\nunable to parse 'PDUname,host=monitor,snmp_host=10.1.1.3 > PDUname=Rack 1468661570000000000': invalid boolean"} > 2016/07/16 19:02:50 Error writing to output [influxdb]: Could not write to > any InfluxDB server in cluster > > > This example was for text OID. I found the same thing occurred if the OID > was a timetics. I am quite new to Telegraf/InfluxDB but searching around > seemed to indicate that the software did support text as either key or > value so not sure what I am doing wrong? > > -- > Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "InfluxDB" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/fb064f54-8e15-4117-858d-68e91dc4b3e0%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sean Beckett Director of Support and Professional Services InfluxDB -- Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CALGqCvOFd7S3S%2BBZZAC%3DOuoSyXc%2BUs-uXVz9FzahZZhXkNDYwQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
