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Re: [pcp] PMID domain number for new pmda

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] PMID domain number for new pmda
From: Martin Hicks <mort@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:32:08 -0400
Cc: Max Matveev <makc@xxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1269571407.31800.3.camel@bozo-laptop>
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:43:27PM +1100, Ken McDonell wrote:
> I think the number of PMDA developers is still sufficiently small ...
> 8^)> ... so we don't need a heavy protocol, and I'd suggest submitting a
> patch to the list and it shall be so.

Agreed.  I've done exactly this in the past.

> 
> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:51 +1100, Max Matveev wrote:
> > We're developing IPMI pmda internally which may or may not ever see
> > the light of the open-source world. I'd like to use an officially
> > assigned domain number to avoid archive problems in the future. What's
> > the protocol for getting a domain for not-yet-ready pmdas?
> > 
> > Martin, IIRC SGI has had plans to write IPMI pmda in the past. Do you
> > know if something has happen in this area?

IPMI in terms of collecting SDR data from remote (or local) hosts?  No,
we never made our collection mechanism more generic.  We're still using
our sdr pmda, which just reads data from a file that is updated by
another sgi-specific collector daemon.

mh

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