Re: [pcp] My first PMDA, some questions..

[Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 06:49:04PM -0500, Nathan Scott wrote:
> 
> Good stuff.  Is this a PMDA you would like to include in PCP, or do you
> want to maintain/release it separately? (its your choice of course)

Would be very cool to get it included with PCP. I'll submit it for
inclusion once I feel it's closer to finished.

> 
> One thing I noticed is this PMDA would greatly benefit from a python
> version of pmda_pmid_name() from the perl API.  This converts a PMID
> (well - just the cluser,item pair) into a metric name using the data
> structures that the language binding maintains.

Right, that would save me some lines :-)

> 
> But, noone has implemented a python version of that API yet - would you
> be interested in hacking on that?  (see the data structures maintained
> by PMDA.add_metric() in src/python/pcp/pmda.py, if so)

Sure, I'll look into it.



  -jf