How to test: make sure the plugin is loaded, if there is no config, create a file: /etc/collectd.d/ovs-stats.conf LoadPlugin ovs_stats <Plugin "ovs_stats"> Socket "/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock" </Plugin> Save the file and systemctl restart collectd
Moving this to OSP 10 tracker since it is targeted for OSP 10 future errata
According to our records, this should be resolved by collectd-5.8.0-12.el7ost. This build is available now.
collectd-5.8.0-12.el7ost.x86_64 collectd includes ovs-stats plugin and also ovs-stats.conf file. Jan 10 09:04:03 compute-0 collectd[218936]: plugin_load: plugin "ovs_stats" successfully loaded.