Update deb/rpm package config, package script

etc/config.sample.toml

@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 # Telegraf configuration
 
-# If this file is missing an [agent] section, you must first generate a
-# valid config with 'telegraf -sample-config > telegraf.toml'
-
 # Telegraf is entirely plugin driven. All metrics are gathered from the
 # declared plugins.
 
@@ -22,33 +19,60 @@
 # NOTE: The configuration has a few required parameters. They are marked
 # with 'required'. Be sure to edit those to make this configuration work.
 
+# Tags can also be specified via a normal map, but only one form at a time:
 [tags]
 	# dc = "us-east-1"
 
-# Configuration for telegraf itself
+# Configuration for telegraf agent
 [agent]
+	# Default data collection interval for all plugins
 	interval = "10s"
-    debug = false
+
-    hostname = ""
+	# If utc = false, uses local time (utc is highly recommended)
 	utc = true
+
+	# Precision of writes, valid values are n, u, ms, s, m, and h
+	# note: using second precision greatly helps InfluxDB compression
 	precision = "s"
 
-# Configuration for influxdb server to send metrics to
+	# run telegraf in debug mode
+	debug = false
+
+	# Override default hostname, if empty use os.Hostname()
+	hostname = ""
+
+
+###############################################################################
+#                                  OUTPUTS                                    #
+###############################################################################
+
 [outputs]
+
+# Configuration for influxdb server to send metrics to
 [outputs.influxdb]
 	# The full HTTP endpoint URL for your InfluxDB instance
+	# Multiple urls can be specified for InfluxDB cluster support. Server to
+	# write to will be randomly chosen each interval.
 	urls = ["http://localhost:8086"] # required.
 
 	# The target database for metrics. This database must already exist
 	database = "telegraf" # required.
 
+	# Connection timeout (for the connection with InfluxDB), formatted as a string.
+	# Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h".
+	# If not provided, will default to 0 (no timeout)
+	# timeout = "5s"
+
 	# username = "telegraf"
 	# password = "metricsmetricsmetricsmetrics"
 
 	# Set the user agent for the POSTs (can be useful for log differentiation)
 	# user_agent = "telegraf"
 
-# PLUGINS
+
+###############################################################################
+#                                  PLUGINS                                    #
+###############################################################################
 
 # Read metrics about cpu usage
 [cpu]
@@ -56,6 +80,8 @@
 	percpu = true
 	# Whether to report total system cpu stats or not
 	totalcpu = true
+	# Comment this line if you want the raw CPU time metrics
+	drop = ["cpu_time"]
 
 # Read metrics about disk usage by mount point
 [disk]
@@ -69,8 +95,10 @@
 [mem]
 	# no configuration
 
-[system]
+# Read metrics about swap memory usage
-    # no configuration
-
 [swap]
 	# no configuration
+
+# Read metrics about system load & uptime
+[system]
+	# no configuration

scripts/package.sh

@@ -209,9 +209,12 @@ EOF
 
 if [ "$1" == "-h" ]; then
     usage 0
+elif [ "$1" == "" ]; then
+    VERSION=`git describe --always --tags | tr -d v`
+else
+    VERSION="$1"
 fi
 
-VERSION=`git describe --always --tags | tr -d v`
 cd `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
 echo -e "\nStarting package process, version: $VERSION\n"