I've never unserstood it either. After asking 160 LPIC2 students, about collectd, just 1 knew about it. He told me he had used it in backbone routers, because it was lightweight and coded in ansi-C, so it can be compiled in every platform.
However... this is LPIC and monitoring tools like nagios-plugins exceed this software features. In Debian Jessie it just has 94 plugins, including the one monitoring collectd. There's tens of thousands of nagios-compatible plugins. If we need to teach some specific monitoring platform, I see no reason to keep this one. My support for munin as easy & nice-looking capacity planning + Icinga (as nagios successor) for monitoring. Regards, Kenneth A 2016-02-22 15:00, Simone Piccardi escrigué: > Probably I already ask about this, but I could not find anything on my > email archive, so I'll ask again. Why force this specific monitoring > solution on the Exam ? > > There are plenty of solution to "monitor resource usage", I don't think > that asking question about just a specific one is a good way to assess > a > sysadmin skill, I know quite well nagios, icinga, check_mk and zabbix > but I know almost nothing about how collectd is working, excepted its > general features. > > Given the quite generic nature of the topic I will see as more > appropriate not asking anything about the details of a specific > monitoring tool, asking instead about class of requisites for > monitoring > and programs that could match them. > > Simone _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
