Re: [pcp] Using PCP and Zabbix

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Trey,

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> I'm curious how others are managing PCP and Zabbix. The PCP docs for zbxpcp
> mention that pmcd needs to be running before the zabbix-agent. The issue
> that I'm curious about is how the order is achieved in CentOS 6 and system
> V. Installing PCP from bintray and Zabbix from EPEL results in pmcd (95)
> starting in runlevel 3 after zabbix-agent (86).
> 
> The only maintainable solution I can think of is to put something like
> 'service zabbix-agent restart' in /etc/rc.local.
> 
> I'm curious if maybe there's some more elegant solution I'm just overlooking.
> 

None that I know of so far, but Marko is the zbxpcp guru, perhaps he has one.
The zbxpcp code could possibly acquire ability to delay pmNewContext(3) and/or
use the pmReconnectContext(3) libpcp API to tackle this.

cheers.

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Nathan