Changes To Collectd Config

[BarryCarey]

Hey All,

Is there anyway to permanently save changes to the collectd config? Any changes seem to be overwritten with every machine restart and interface restart.

I send my server stats over to InfluxDB with the network collectd plugin. Bit of a pain to edit the config every time I reboot or make network changes.

 

[joeschmuck]

Not sure if this will help at all, it's all Greek to me.

https://bugs.pcbsd.org/issues/6438

 

[BarryCarey]

Similar issue. Although I edit the same config they mention and it works until the networking or box is restarted. Then it's overwritten with the default Freenas config.

It would be nice to have a GUI option to enable extra collectd plugins. But I would settle for a way to edit the config without it being overwritten.

 

[joeschmuck]

Unfortunately I don't think there is a current way to edit the file and have it survive a reboot. I can think outside the box and come up with a possible solution. Please remember that this is outside the box. Create a script which will run after a reboot to make the changes to your collectd.conf file. Activate the script via the CRON Init/Shutdown Scripts GUI section. This should be very easy to accomplish. Scripts are not too bad to write but you want to ensure that you write them to only alter the lines you need them to alter, meaning you could make this also survive a software upgrade if done properly.

So that is out of the box thinking for you.

 

[BarryCarey]

Thanks for the info.

That's what I planned on doing if nobody was able to offer a better solution. It seemed too hackish so I wanted to check and see if anyone came up with a better solution first.

 

[joeschmuck]

Don't think of it as hackish, think of it as Customized.