Version 2 of sending the correct data to influx. Also catching the exception that would stop updates working.

includes/functions.php

@@ -1252,10 +1252,28 @@ function function_check($function) {
     return function_exists($function);
 }
 
-function force_influx_data($type,$data) {
-    if ($type == 'f' || $type == 'float') {
-        return(sprintf("%.1f",$data));
+function force_influx_data($data) {
+   /*
+    * It is not trivial to detect if something is a float or an integer, and
+    * therefore may cause breakages on inserts.
+    * Just setting every number to a float gets around this, but may introduce
+    * inefficiencies.
+    * I've left the detection statement in there for a possible change in future,
+    * but currently everything just gets set to a float.
+    */
+
+    if (is_numeric($data)) {
+        // If it is an Integer
+        if (ctype_digit($data)) {
+            return floatval($data);
+        // Else it is a float
+        } else {
+            return floatval($data);
+        }
+    } else {
+        return $data;
     }
+
 }// end force_influx_data
 
 /**

includes/influxdb.inc.php

@@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ function influx_update($device,$measurement,$tags=array(),$fields) {
             $tmp_tags[$k] = $v;
         }
         foreach ($fields as $k => $v) {
-            $tmp_fields[$k] = force_influx_data('f',$v);
+            $tmp_fields[$k] = force_influx_data($v);
+            if( $tmp_fields[$k] === null) {
+               unset($tmp_fields[$k]);
+           }
         }
         
         d_echo("\nInfluxDB data:\n");
@@ -76,7 +79,12 @@ function influx_update($device,$measurement,$tags=array(),$fields) {
                     $tmp_fields // optional additional fields
                 )
             );
-            $result = $influxdb->writePoints($points);
+            try {
+                $result = $influxdb->writePoints($points);
+            } catch (Exception $e) {
+                d_echo("Caught exception: ", $e->getMessage(), "\n");
+                d_echo($e->getTrace());
+            }
         }
         else {
             print $console_color->convert('[%gInfluxDB Disabled%n] ', false);

includes/polling/netstats-snmp.inc.php

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ if ($device['os'] != 'Snom') {
             $value = $data_array[0][$oid];
         }
         else {
-            $value = 'U';
+            $value = null;
         }
         $fields[$oid] = $value;
     }