network plugin: Changed the old network code to work as a plugin.

[collectd.git] / README

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
  collectd - System information collection daemon
 =================================================
-http://verplant.org/collectd/
+http://collectd.org/
 
 About
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@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ Features
       (Number of bytes transfered, number of requests handled and detailed
       scoreboard statistics)
 
+    - APC UPS Daemon
+      (UPS charge, load, input/output/battery voltage, etc)
+
     - Apple Sensors
       (Temperature, fanspeed and voltage sensors of apple computers)
 
@@ -52,6 +55,9 @@ Features
     - NFS Procedures
       (Which NFS command were called how often. Only NFSv2 and NFSv3 right now)
 
+    - NTP Daemon
+      (Local clock drift, offset to peers, etc)
+
     - Ping latency
       (Time to reach the default gateway or another given host)
 
@@ -59,7 +65,7 @@ Features
       (Number of running, sleeping, zombie, ... processes)
 
     - Sensors
-      (System temperatured and fan rotation speeds)
+      (lm_sensors voltages, temperatures and fan rotation speeds)
 
     - Serial
       (RX and TX of serial interfaces)
@@ -112,14 +118,9 @@ Operation
     own experiments.. Some of them require the `RRDs' Perl module.
     (`librrds-perl' on Debian)
 
-  * The RRD-files that collectd creates hold the following data. Use ``rrdtool
-    resize'' if you want to cover longer/shorter periods of time.
-
-    Resolution | Data points |  Timespan
-    -----------+-------------+----------
-    60 seconds |        1500 |  25 hours
-    30 minutes |        1680 |  35 days
-     6 hours   |        1520 | 380 days
+  * The RRAs of the automatically created RRD files depend on the `step'
+    and `heartbeat' settings given on compile time. For a list of the
+    default RRAs take a look in the collectd(1) manpage.
 
 
 Prerequisites
@@ -142,6 +143,13 @@ Prerequisites
     this library, are not supported in collectd right now..
     <http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/> 
 
+  * libcurl (optional)
+    If you want to use the `apache' plugin
+
+  * CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework
+    For copiling on darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in
+    particular.
+
 Author
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