#632941 Wish for tcpconss plugin ListeningPorts=privileged

Package:
collectd-core
Source:
collectd
Description:
statistics collection and monitoring daemon (core system)
Submitter:
"Trent W. Buck"
Date:
2011-07-07 08:33:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#632941#5
Date:
2011-07-07 08:28:57 UTC
From:
To:
I'm using tcpconns to look at e.g. the number of open SSH and HTTP
connections.

It's really useful that it auto-detects which ports are in use, rather
than me having to list them.  It means if a new service is added to a
machine (especially a customer machine which I monitor, but don't
directly control), collectd will automatically pick up on it.

Unfortunately, my users are in the habit of also running ssh -L and -X
and NFS, and these basically get random ports, which leads to an
explosion of annoying extra graphs.

It would be nice if I could set ListeningPorts to "privileged", which
would make it work as "true" for ports 1024 and below, and like
"false" for ports 1025 and above.