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/sampleSink.go

@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ import (
 )
 
 type SampleSinkConfig struct {
-	// defines JSON tags for 'type' and 'meta_as_tags'
+	// defines JSON tags for 'type' and 'meta_as_tags' (string list)
 	// See: metricSink.go
 	defaultSinkConfig
 	// Additional config options, for SampleSink
 }
 
 type SampleSink struct {
-	// declares elements 	'name' and 'meta_as_tags'
+	// declares elements 	'name' and 'meta_as_tags' (string to bool map!)
 	sink
 	config SampleSinkConfig // entry point to the SampleSinkConfig
 }
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ type SampleSink struct {
 
 // Code to submit a single CCMetric to the sink
 func (s *SampleSink) Write(point lp.CCMetric) error {
+	// based on s.meta_as_tags use meta infos as tags
 	log.Print(point)
 	return nil
 }
@@ -62,6 +63,12 @@ func NewSampleSink(name string, config json.RawMessage) (Sink, error) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Create lookup map to use meta infos as tags in the output metric
+	s.meta_as_tags = make(map[string]bool)
+	for _, k := range s.config.MetaAsTags {
+		s.meta_as_tags[k] = true
+	}
+
 	// Check if all required fields in the config are set
 	// E.g. use 'len(s.config.Option) > 0' for string settings