2008/11/16 Charles Lepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> The remainder, until the -pre stage, will be: >>>> - the Powerman support (through the powerman driver) for more PDUs >>>> - the possible RRD integration into upslog >>> >>> It would be nice to have native RRD support in upslog, but we may also >>> want to point people to collectd - the NUT support in collectd is very >>> easy to use, and collectd does a good job of monitoring other system >>> statistics at the same time. >> >> I'm not very knowledgeable there! >> is rrd's end collectd? if so, we can discard this patch and point collectd! >> otherwise, I have a few things underhand for RRD (m4, pkginfo contributed, >> ...) > > collectd is a standalone daemon to collect statistics, and its NUT > plugin connects to upsd via libupsclient. > > The three main outputs of collectd are CSV, RRD and a network feed to > another collectd instance. There is also a feed to Nagios, and some > threshold detection and notification support. I have mainly been > experimenting with the RRD support. > > http://collectd.org/images/architecture-schematic.png > > image from: http://collectd.org/features.shtml
thanks for these info. so, do you think that it's worth keeping the upslog patch? or simply relying on collectd with RRD output is fine? since I'm using neither, I just want to be sure that we don't shoot on our users feets! >>> From the NUT perspective , an interesting set of statistics is the >>> correlation between UPS load and CPU utilization. >> >> interesting. I've just been invited to FossCamp / UDS, next december >> at the Googleplex, to talk about that ;-) >> green / cloud computing, power management, ... >> >> this should be a great deal for nut improvement and integration (in >> Ubuntu at least, though I hope there will be some other distro guys!) > > Excellent! indeed ^_^ -- Arnaud _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
