Re: [pcp] zbxpcp: tolerate pmcd restarts

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 2016-01-28 03:13, Nathan Scott wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> As said earlier [1] it's not possible to start zabbix-agent before pmcd
>> but it's possible for zbxpcp to recover from pmcd restarts with
>> pmReconnectContext(3), so let's do that.
>>
>> 1) http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/pcp/2016-January/009408.html
>>
>> Update zbxpcp(3) accordingly and make it follow the PCP man page style.
> 
> Looks good.
> 
>>   * TODO
>> + * - reconnection interval support
>>   * - derived metrics support
> 
> This is supported via PMCD_RECONNECT_TIMEOUT (see ENVIRONMENT section of
> PCPIntro(1), near the end) - did you mean here some other way of setting
> that back-off string, I guess?

I forgot PMCD_RECONNECT_TIMEOUT, I think it actually does exactly what I
was thinking.

Thanks,

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Marko Myllynen