[tor-relays] Tor-Plugin for munin

[Martin Weinelt]

On 27.03.2014 17:57, Damian Johnson wrote:
>> Everybody likes graphs, right?
>>
>> I tried some of the available munin plugins, but none of those were
>> really working anymore. So I sat down and began writing my own, using
>> stem, which is really awesome.
>>
>> These are really early stages, but it already supports autoconf
>> determination and suggestions. If you want to take a look, it is
>> hosted on github[1].
>>
>> At the moment it supports a connection graph, getting its data from
>> orconn-status. More graphs are possible, but not yet implemented.
>> Ideas are welcome.
> 
> Neat, thanks Martin! Added munin-tor to our examples...
> 
>   https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/double_double_toil_and_trouble.html
> 
> 
> Few quick thoughts about the Stem bits...
> 
>> with Controller.from_port(port=port) as controller:
>>   controller.authenticate()
>>   if controller.is_authenticated():
>>     print('yes')
>>   else:
>>     print('no (Authentication failed)')
> 
> The is_authenticated() is unnecessary. The authenticate() call will
> raise an AuthenticationFailure if unsuccessful...
> 
> https://stem.torproject.org/api/connection.html#stem.connection.authenticate
> 
>> response = controller.get_info('orconn-status')
> 
> You might want to do the following instead if you'd rather not risk
> exceptions...
> 
> response = controller.get_info('orconn-status', None)
> 
> if response is None:
>   return
> 
>> states = {'NEW': 0, 'LAUNCHED': 0, 'CONNECTED': 0, 'FAILED': 0, 'CLOSED': 0}
> 
> Up to you but you could also use Stem's ORStatus enum.
> 
>>>> import stem
>>>> dict((state, 0) for state in stem.ORStatus)
> {'NEW': 0, 'CONNECTED': 0, 'CLOSED': 0, 'LAUNCHED': 0, 'FAILED': 0}
> 
>> response = controller.get_info('traffic/read')
>> print('read.value {}'.format(response))
>> response = controller.get_info('traffic/written')
>> print('written.value {}'.format(response))
> 
> Again, this could potentially raise exceptions unless you provide
> get_info() a default value.
> 
> Cheers! -Damian
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Hey Damian,

thanks for your input. I'll gladly work on those issues in the next few
days.

Martin