collectd-netgeargs

A collectd exec "plugin" for scraping netger gs10X series switch webpages for port usage status. All values are in bits.

Requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To run manually:

python3 gs.py <switch_hostname> <password>

Or in collectd.conf

LoadPlugin exec

<Plugin exec>
        Exec "user:group" "python3" "/path/to/gs.py" "myswitch.local" "supers3cretpassword"
</Plugin>

Note: Don't try to get collectd to run it as root, it won't let you. I'm not sure if there's a way to force it but it's not a good idea anyway.

I realise the exec plugin is not a good way to get collectd to run python script, there is a perfectly good python plugin for that - but this way it keeps things simple and means the python script can be run from the command line as well.

Remember to add rxPkt, txpkt (yes, that's a lower case 'p' in txpkt) and crcPkt to your types.db file.

rxPkt                   value:GAUGE:0:U
txpkt                   value:GAUGE:0:U
crcPkt                  value:GAUGE:0:U

or if you want collectd to find the derivitive data rates:

rxPkt                   value:DERIVE:0:U
txpkt                   value:DERIVE:0:U
crcPkt                  value:DERIVE:0:U