Cacti
Remote Pollers - Support Boost update if RRDproxy is in use and available.
Feature Request
If a remote poller has been isolated from its master it continues polling and all captured data values will be cached locally. Depending on how long the outage takes many Boost records will be waiting and have to be transferred during the recovery phase of the system. In my case more than 100M records.
Question is, if you have a RRDproxy as data backend, that is up and reachable by the remote poller, why should the remote poller not run its own Boost update process?
This would ensure that data handled by this server will be stored in a safe place and the synchronization time goes down.
The reason that we did not take this approach directly was due to plugins like thold and dsstats needing the data. It we move that functionality down to the remotes we gain a bit, but potentially loose a bit too.
