src/Makefile.am: Define HAS_BOOL when building the perl plugin.

[collectd.git] / README

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@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Features
       Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and
       voltage sensors.
 
+    - ascent
+      Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'.
+
     - battery
       Batterycharge, -current and voltage of ACPI and PMU based laptop
       batteries.
@@ -156,6 +159,10 @@ Features
     - swap
       Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
 
+    - tail
+      Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
+      values.
+
     - tape
       Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only.
 
@@ -165,6 +172,10 @@ Features
     - users
       Users currently logged in.
 
+    - vmem
+      Virtual memory statistics, e. g. the number of page-ins/-outs or the
+      number of pagefaults.
+
     - vserver
       System resources used by Linux VServers.
       See <http://linux-vserver.org/>.
@@ -219,6 +230,16 @@ Features
 
   * Notifications can be handled by the following plugins:
 
+    - notify_desktop
+      Send a desktop notification to a notification daemon, as defined in
+      the Desktop Notification Specification. To actually display the
+      notifications, notification-daemon is required.
+      See http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/.
+
+    - notify_email
+      Send an E-mail with the notification message to the configured
+      recipients.
+
     - exec
       Execute a program or script to handle the notification.
       See collectd-exec(5).
@@ -304,8 +325,15 @@ Prerequisites
     used and should be found in various implementations for hopefully all
     platforms.
 
+  * CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework (optional)
+    For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in
+    particular.
+
   * libcurl (optional)
-    If you want to use the `apache' and/or `nginx' plugins.
+    If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', or `nginx' plugin.
+
+  * libesmtp (optional)
+    For the `notify_email' plugin.
 
   * libhal (optional)
     If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
@@ -322,6 +350,9 @@ Prerequisites
   * libnetsnmp (optional)
     For the `snmp' plugin.
 
+  * libnotify (optional)
+    For the `notify_desktop' plugin.
+
   * liboping (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
     can be used)
     Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets.
@@ -339,31 +370,27 @@ Prerequisites
     Alternatively you can chose to write CSV-files (Comma Separated Values)
     instead.
 
+  * librt, libsocket, libkstat, libdevinfo (optional)
+    Various standard Solaris libraries which provide system functions.
+
   * libsensors (optional)
     To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin.
 
-  * libstatgrab may be used to collect statistics on systems other than Linux
-    and/or Solaris. Note that CPU- and disk-statistics, while being provided
-    by this library, are not supported in collectd right now..
+  * libstatgrab (optional) may be used to collect statistics on systems other
+    than Linux and/or Solaris. Note that CPU- and disk-statistics, while being
+    provided by this library, are not supported in collectd right now..
     <http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/> 
 
   * libupsclient/nut (optional)
     For the `nut' plugin which queries nut's `upsd'.
 
-  * libxmms (optional)
-
-  * librt, libsocket, libkstat, libdevinfo
-    Various standard Solaris libraries which provide system functions.
-
-  * CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework
-    For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in
-    particular.
-
   * libvirt (optional)
     Collect statistics from virtual machines.
 
   * libxml2 (optional)
-    Parse XML data provided by libvirt.
+    Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent' and `libvirt' plugins.
+
+  * libxmms (optional)
 
 
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