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Custom ZenPack causing erratic data collection for other ZenPacks

Subject: Custom ZenPack causing erratic data collection for other ZenPacks
Author: Larry
Posted: 2020-03-31 00:37

We found something really odd with Zenoss 6.2.1 (Community). We have a custom zenpack with a modeler plugin. It runs fine if only one datasource is enabled, but things go crazy if 2+ datasources are enabled. It randomly has multiple runs (collections) within the collection interval. And....it causes other zenpacks (e.g. Windows) to do the same (have multiple collections inside one collection interval). Each data point is unique (often with a different value), so that confirms Zenoss isn't collecting ONCE and writing it multiple times. Instead, it's COLLECTING multiple times. We are using the default collection interval of 300 seconds. We tried changing the collection interval for our custom zenpack to 900 seconds, but it didn't have an impact.

I think this is a Zenoss bug. A zenpack shouldn't be able to break the rest of Zenoss. Is there anything we can check in our zenpack?

Here is a graph of another metric (from a different ZP). It has a collection interval of 300 seconds:

Thanks in advance,

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Larry
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