This prevents the worker nodes from crashing, when request_key is used
in cluster mode and called on the worker and the manager nodes (i.e. when
a non-cluster-aware script is used).
Addresses BIT-1177
Some documentation of commented-out items was being output to HTML,
which was causing that documentation to be merged with the
documentation of the next item. Fixed by changing "##" to "#" so
that the doc comments are not included in the HTML.
- On-demand access to sumstats results through "return from"
functions named SumStats::request and Sumstats::request_key.
Both functions are tested in standalone and clustered modes.
- $name field has returned to SumStats which simplifies cluster
code and makes the on-demand access stuff possible.
- Clustered results can only be collected for 1 minute from their
time of creation now instead of time of last read.
- Thresholds use doubles instead of counts everywhere now.
- Calculation dependency resolution occurs at start up time now
instead of doing it at observation time which provide a minor
cpu performance improvement. A new plugin registration mechanism
was created to support this change.
- AppStats now has a minimal doc string and is broken into hook-based
plugins.
- AppStats and traceroute detection added to local.bro
* origin/topic/bernhard/metrics-bug:
add comment for seth to make us not forget about the copy statements
fix the fix (thanks seth)
duct-tape fix of values not propagating after intermediate check in cluster environments.
Fixing coverage.bare-mode-errors test.
