Collectd Developer Reference

Collectd Plugin for Receiver or arbiter

class module.module.CollectdServer(host, port, multicast, grouped_collectd_plugins=[])

Bases: object

Collectd server This class listen and and handle collectd requests

Host:Bind address Port:Bind port Multicast:Enable multisite Grouped_collectd_plugins:  List of collecd plugins to group

decode(buf=None)

Return a decode packet

interpret_opcodes(iterable)

Decode some stuff from Collectd

read(iterable=None)

Return a list of decoded packets

receive()

Read socket

class module.module.Collectd_arbiter(modconf, host, port, multicast, grouped_collectd_plugins=[])

Bases: BaseModule

Main class for this collecitd module

main()

Plugin main loop

class module.module.Data(grouped_collectd_plugins=, []**kw)

Bases: list, object

This class will transform datas

Grouped_collectd_plugins:  list of collecd plugins to group

get_kind()

Get kind of a Data object

get_message()

Get message of a Data object

get_message_command()

Return data severity (exit code) from collectd datas

get_metric_name()

Determine perf data name from collectd datas

get_metric_values()

Determine perf datas from collectd datas

get_name()

Determine data name from collectd datas

get_srv_desc()

Determine service name from collectd datas

get_time()

Return data time from collectd datas

class module.module.Element(host_name, sdesc, interval)

Bases: object

Element store service name and all perfdatas before send it in a external command

add_perf_data(mname, mvalues, mtime)

Add perf datas to the message to send to Shinken

get_command()

Prepare the external command for Shinken

module.module.decode_number(pktype, pklen, buf)

Decode number typed value

module.module.decode_packet(buf)

decode packet from collectd requests

module.module.decode_string(msgtype, pklen, buf)

Decode string typed value

module.module.decode_values(pktype, plen, buf)

Decode values from collectd requests

module.module.get_instance(plugin)

This function is called by the module manager to get an instance of this module