Hi Michael and all,
Error messages from collectd have been reported in the forum with
Core Update 192 (so the 15.12.0 update).
The messages were:-
07:19:24 collectd[17386]: read-function of plugin `openvpn/ovpnserver.log' failed. Will suspend it for 30720.000 seconds.
07:19:24 collectd[17386]: openvpn plugin: failed to get data from: /var/run/ovpnserver.log
03:03:24 collectd[17386]: read-function of plugin `openvpn/ovpnserver.log' failed. Will suspend it for 15360.000 seconds.
03:03:24 collectd[17386]: openvpn plugin: failed to get data from: /var/run/ovpnserver.log
00:55:24 collectd[17386]: read-function of plugin `openvpn/ovpnserver.log' failed. Will suspend it for 7680.000 seconds.
00:55:24 collectd[17386]: openvpn plugin: failed to get data from: /var/run/ovpnserver.log
Looking back through the IPFIre git repo I saw that some of the 22
odd patches that had been applied to collectd-4.10.9 were related to
openvpn and some of them to silencing openvpn errors.
I identified 7 patches related to openvpn, all patching the
/src/openvpn.c file in the collectd source tarball.
I compared all these patches with the collectd-5.12.0 source
tarball.
One of the files had its contents now included in the source
tarball. This was the one related to changing the openvpn plugin
from a COUNTER to a DERIVE approach.
The other 6 patches I could not find virtually any match as the
openvpn.c code is significantly different enough that finding the
section of code where the changes should be applied was impossible.
In many cases the variables being changes are no longer present, or
if present are used in very different commands now.
Any thoughts on how to fix this. Do we need to basically completely
re-write the old patches to be able to work in the new code or is
there some way to be able to detect that openvpn is not running and
therefore comment out the include openvpn plugin command in the
collectd.conf file in the same way as we do with the thermal plugin.
The issue I see with this is that the thermal line is commented out
via the collectd initscript, presumably because if this is not
capable at boot it won't change while the system is running.
However with openvpn the user could enable openvpn to start and then
we would need to make the collectd daemon restart so that the
initscript could uncomment the include openvpn plugin line.
Editing the openvpn.c code is beyond my capabilities but the second
option to uncomment the openvpn plugin line if openvpn is started
might be in my capabilities.
Any thoughts or other suggestions on this issue.
Regards,
Adolf.
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