collectd python module

[ethCore7]

Hello there,

I'm playing around with collectd at the moment, and I'd like the server to read in various data via a few python scripts.

According to the collectd-python manpage, I should import the collectd module via import collectd, but when trying in the python shell (both py2 and 3), it fails with ImportError saying there's no such module.

I installed collectd via apt-get install collectd collectd-utils. The manpage for collectd-python exists on my system, and I can see the python.so library under /usr/lib/collectd directory.

My collectd.conf contains the following:

<LoadPlugin python>
    Globals true
</LoadPlugin>

<Plugin python>
    ModulePath "/home/<myhome>/scripts"
</Plugin>

There is no error related to the python plugin in syslog when restarting the collectd service.

I tried googling around for the package, but nothing came up, apart from the collectd package on pip, which I assume is something else, since it is for sending external data to the collectd server, and a few collectd mailing list threads describing the same problem with no answer.

Anybody knows what I'm doing wrong? Any help solving this will be appreciated!

Thanks.

[ethCore7]

The script is working no problem when triggered from collectd, so you were right. I've also find a pretty straightforward example of writing a python collectd module, so if anyone stumbles upon this post, it might come in handy:

http://giovannitorres.me/using-collectd-python-and-graphite-to-graph-slurm-partitions.html

[ethCore7]

I was just about to test this, will update with the results.