Merge latest developments into main (#67)

* Update configuration.md

Add an additional receiver to have better alignment of components

* Change default GpfsCollector command to `mmpmon` (#53)

* Set default cmd to 'mmpmon'

* Reuse looked up path

* Cast const to string

* Just download LIKWID to get the headers (#54)

* Just download LIKWID to get the headers

* Remove perl-Data-Dumper from BuildRequires, only required by LIKWID build

* Add HttpReceiver as counterpart to the HttpSink (#49)

* Use GBytes as unit for large memory numbers

* Make maxForward configurable, save old name in meta in rename metrics and make the hostname tag key configurable

* Single release action (#55)

Building all RPMs and releasing in a single workflow

* Makefile target to build binary-only Debian packages (#61)

* Add 'install' and 'DEB' make targets to build binary-only Debian packages

* Add control file for DEB builds

* Use a single line for bash loop in make clean

* Add config options for retry intervals of InfluxDB clients (#59)

* Refactoring of LikwidCollector and metric units (#62)

* Reduce complexity of LikwidCollector and allow metric units

* Add unit to LikwidCollector docu and fix some typos

* Make library path configurable

* Use old metric name in Ganglia if rename has happened in the router (#60)

* Use old metric name if rename has happened in the router

* Also check for Ganglia renames for the oldname

* Derived metrics (#57)

* Add time-based derivatived (e.g. bandwidth) to some collectors

* Add documentation

* Add comments

* Fix: Only compute rates with a valid previous state

* Only compute rates with a valid previous state

* Define const values for net/dev fields

* Set default config values

* Add comments

* Refactor: Consolidate data structures

* Refactor: Consolidate data structures

* Refactor: Avoid struct deep copy

* Refactor: Avoid redundant tag maps

* Refactor: Use int64 type for absolut values

Co-authored-by: Holger Obermaier <40787752+ho-ob@users.noreply.github.com>

* Simplified iota usage

* Move unit tag to meta data tags

* Derived metrics (#65)

* Add time-based derivatived (e.g. bandwidth) to some collectors

* Add documentation

* Add comments

* Fix: Only compute rates with a valid previous state

* Only compute rates with a valid previous state

* Define const values for net/dev fields

* Set default config values

* Add comments

* Refactor: Consolidate data structures

* Refactor: Consolidate data structures

* Refactor: Avoid struct deep copy

* Refactor: Avoid redundant tag maps

* Refactor: Use int64 type for absolut values

* Update LustreCollector

Co-authored-by: Holger Obermaier <40787752+ho-ob@users.noreply.github.com>

* Meta to tags list and map for sinks (#63)

* Change ccMetric->Influx functions

* Use a meta_as_tags string list in config but create a lookup map afterwards

* Add meta as tag logic to sampleSink

* Fix staticcheck warnings (#66)

Co-authored-by: Holger Obermaier <40787752+ho-ob@users.noreply.github.com>

sinks/influxAsyncSink.md

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ The `influxasync` sink uses the official [InfluxDB golang client](https://pkg.go
     "organization": "myorg",
     "ssl": true,
     "batch_size": 200,
+    "retry_interval" : "1s",
+    "retry_exponential_base" : 2,
+    "max_retries": 20,
+    "max_retry_time" : "168h"
   }
 }
 ```
@@ -31,4 +35,10 @@ The `influxasync` sink uses the official [InfluxDB golang client](https://pkg.go
 - `password`: Password for basic authentification
 - `organization`: Organization in the InfluxDB
 - `ssl`: Use SSL connection
-- `batch_size`: batch up metrics internally, default 100
+- `batch_size`: batch up metrics internally, default 100
+- `retry_interval`: Base retry interval for failed write requests, default 1s
+- `retry_exponential_base`: The retry interval is exponentially increased with this base, default 2
+- `max_retries`: Maximal number of retry attempts
+- `max_retry_time`: Maximal time to retry failed writes, default 168h (one week)
+
+For information about the calculation of the retry interval settings, see [offical influxdb-client-go documentation](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-go#handling-of-failed-async-writes)