Re: [pcp] Using PCP and Zabbix

[Trey Dockendorf <treydock@xxxxxxxx>]

Marko,

Thanks for the information.

The good news is that now after looking into think I think we can use
pmReconnectContext(3) to recover from pmcd(1) restarts later on, I'll
test a bit and send a patch later today or tomorrow.

This will greatly help simplify things as I currently manage both Zabbix and PCP with Puppet and was going to end up having to put something like Service['pmcd']~>Service['zabbix-agent'] which would restart zabbix-agent anytime pmcd restarts (in theory).

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Wrt the solution for starting up the services in the right order, I was
doing more or less the same as Trey (I had zabbix-agent chkconfig'ed off
and started in /etc/rc.local). Perhaps one option would be adjusting
priorities for these services so that pmcd(1) would be started first but
I'm not sure how elegant that would be unless either upstream changes
them. If there are no better suggestions, perhaps we could try asking
the zabbix-agent maintainers for that.

The use of rc.local will work just fine though having upstream make a priority change would help too.

Thanks,

- TreyÂ