net-mgmt/collectd: improvements

[ghost]

Hi,

I'm new to OPNsense and wondering why the collectd plugin is missing. Is this plugin not supported in 17.1.11 of am I getting something wrong?

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os-xen | 1.1 | 80.0B | Xen guest utilities |  
os-zabbix-agent

[fichtner]

Hi Yves,

Collectd wasn't formally released yet, it's considered under development.

It hasn't been added to 17.1 at all, but there is a development version on 17.7:

# pkg install os-collectd-devel

You could also install collectd from the plugins.git for 17.1, I can walk you through it.

Cheers, Franco

[ghost]

Hi @fichtner, thanks for your feedback. I'd like to help you getting this into production. Can you give me some information what's missing or where some work is needed?

[fichtner]

it should work as is now, literally in a "grace period" before its first release.

@mimugmail as author / maintainer will be able to help with what may be missing.

If you have ideas on what you think is missing will also help.

Do you have the plugin installed or do you still need assistance with that?

Thanks, Franco

[mimugmail]

@yves-vogl I'd be glad if you could test the plugin. It should work as is right now, but some beta testers would be fine.

If you could switch to 17.7 and install the plugin and check if everything works as expected would be a great step forward to stable.

[ghost]

Alright, I'll do this.

[ghost]

I've switched to 17.7 yesterday. Installation of the package was successful (see Screenshots)

After installation the collectd services shows up successfully.

Here are my comments:

• Hostname could be taken from the hostname of the firewall
• Network collector host does not allow to use a FQDN (validation fails)
• An InfluxDB writer would be nice. This is something I could work on for a later version
• After saving a working configuration an UI feedback would be great
• Functionality of FQDN lookup is not clear

I've setup the collectd with the network collector and username/password authentication - but without encryption. This works! Data looks OK - Grafana can plot those values.

[mimugmail]

@yves-vogl Thanks for testing, I put a PR for your requested changes in #218

@fichtner Regarding Influx perhaps you could check the parameters when compiling collectd. http and influx is not supported by binary.

[fichtner]

done