Change in statistics format

Peter Yardley Peter.Yardley at uts.edu.au
Fri Nov 16 01:10:28 UTC 2012


I wrote a script to extract stats from the XML channel. Works for cricket, cacti, MRTG ...

You can find it here…

<http://members.iinet.net/~pyardley@ihug.com.au/projects/?project=bind9_5_counters>

Looks like I'll have to update it for 9.10 tho, hope they updated the schema number.

On 16/11/2012, at 6:04 AM, John Miller <johnmill at brandeis.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Evan.  That's exactly what I wanted to know.  I'm already 
> running the statistics server, so I'd certainly prefer to leverage that 
> rather than rely on a bunch of regexes to parse the statistics file.
> 
> I'll let the folks at Hyperic know about the upcoming schema changes.
> 
> John
> 
> On 11/15/2012 12:22 PM, Evan Hunt wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:44:12AM -0500, John Miller wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> When did BIND 9 switch over from the older
>> 
>> The new stats counters were added in 9.5.0.  They're in all currently-
>> supported releases; the old format is fully deprecated now.
>> 
>> Incidentally, that release also introduced an http statistics channel
>> and XML stats reporting, which might be of interest to your monitoring
>> software.  (Note, though, in 9.9.3 we're going to introduce a newer
>> better XML schema for statistics as a compile-time option, and it'll
>> be standard in 9.10, so if they wanted to write code to parse our XML,
>> they might want to know there'll be a few different schema versions in
>> the field soon.)
>> 
>>> Is this a tunable parameter?
>> 
>> No.
>> 
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