Feature Request to connect to SSL-enabled influxdb

[mylesuyema]

It's fairly simply to enable SSL on influxdb, and grafana can also utilize https to the data source without a problem, but the isilon_data_insights_connector does not, and gives useless error message to boot.

[root@isilon-stats isilon_data_insights_connector]# ./isi_data_insights_d.py start
Failed to connect to InfluxDB server at XXX.YYY.ZZZ.155:8086 database: isi_data_insights.
ERROR:

[apecoraro]

It looks like it should be fairly easy to add this type of capability. I think I'd just have to add a configuration parameter to specify whether or not to use ssl for connecting to InfluxDB.

In the mean time you might be able to work around the problem by modifying the code yourself.
On lines 62 through 65 of influxdb_plugin.py change this:

    g_client = InfluxDBClient(host=influxdb_host, port=influxdb_port,
                              database=influxdb_name,
                              username=influxdb_username,
                              password=influxdb_password)

to this:

    g_client = InfluxDBClient(host=influxdb_host, port=influxdb_port,
                              database=influxdb_name,
                              username=influxdb_username,
                              password=influxdb_password,
                              ssl=True)

[apecoraro]

FYI, here are the reference docs for InfluDBClient describing the ssl parameter and you might also need to add a verify_ssl parameter depending on how you have InfluxDB configured.

http://influxdb-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api-documentation.html#influxdb.InfluxDBClient

[mylesuyema]

Yep looks ssl=True is working so far.