On 11/12/09 09:02, Jyri Virkki wrote: > Given the upstream community has stated their major releases are > incompatible it suggests coexistence might be needed. AFAIK there is > no version 5 yet but looking back, looks like they still support 3.x > (in maintenance mode) along with 4.x because the two are incompatible > (http://collectd.org/download.shtml), so it is not unreasonable to > imagine 4.x and 5.x may have a similar coexistence. > > On the down side, versioning always adds a bit of clutter and > inconvenience unless needed. > > Think about it and decide whether to support collectd version > coexistence or not. > I will assume that multiple versions will co-exist. I have updated the attached ARC case accordingly. > >> - included collectdmon as suggested. >> > > jv03: However, if you do, then document how the collectd smf service > and collectdmon can (and can't) interact. In particular, in what ways > can things go confusingly wrong if customer attempts to use both? The > collectdmon man page is a good place to insert this information. > While collectdmon is not required if collectd is started via SMF, there may be products which embed collectd and may want to manage lifecyle of collectd via collectdmon.
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