Hi Ruben, On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:52:37PM +0100, Ruben Laban wrote:
> This is interesting stuff! For some reason I was not even aware of the > existence of the print plugin. Reading through the complete changelog > doesn't show much evidence of it either. True. The print plugin did sneak into the pmacct package some time ago, mainly for troubleshooting and debugging purposes. Hence it didn't get much advertisement around. Although people were already using it in some production scenarios by piping output to files or 3rd party tools, I'd consider this the first real development of the plugin truly suitable for user consumption. Very glad to read positive feedback! > It surely will decrease the complexity of my collection scripts. As I > currently query the IMTs every 5 minutes, parse the data and write to > "journal" files. With this plugin however, I can just have pmacct write > these journal files directly, and even have a trigger whenever a new one > is there to be processed! > I hope I'll have some spare minutes soon to write a PoC replacement for > my current setup. The details of this plugin and its newly added config > directives will need a bit time to fully comprehend (both the workings > and the usage), but at first glance it looks rather trivial to use. Indeed & keep us posted. Section XIV of the EXAMPLES document, which is also available via the wiki (*), outlines some basic configuration. It's really meant to be as simple as that. Any further thoughts and ideas are as usual much welcome - here or privately. > PS: Any idea on when 0.14.0 will be "final"? Other than the obvious > "when it's ready"? ;-) Release 0.14 has considerably stabilized by now. The main features that have been released so far (support for IPFIX, support for BerkeleyDB via SQLite plugin, sampling_map, writing to flat-files via print plugin and support for BGP/MPLS VPNs) can be considered stable. Final 0.14.0 is the next one to come, bringing one last main feature, and expected by end of Q1 2012. Stay tuned :-) Cheers, Paolo (*) http://http://wiki.pmacct.net/OfficialExamples _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
