Batterycharge, -current and voltage of ACPI and PMU based laptop
batteries.
- - curl
- Parse statistics from websites using regular expressions.
-
- bind
Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
- cpufreq
CPU frequency (For laptops with speed step or a similar technology)
+ - curl
+ Parse statistics from websites using regular expressions.
+
- dbi
Executes SQL statements on various databases and interprets the returned
data.
If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
<http://hal.freedesktop.org/>
- * libiptc (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
- can be used if the Linux kernel headers are available)
+ * libiptc (optional)
For querying iptables counters.
<http://netfilter.org/>
+ If not found on the system, a version shipped with this distribution can
+ be used. It requires some Linux headers in /usr/include/linux. You can
+ force the build system to use the shipped version by specifying
+ --with-libiptc=shipped
+ when running the configure script.
+
* libjvm (optional)
Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
used by the Java plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with
For the `notify_desktop' plugin.
<http://www.galago-project.org/>
- * liboping (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
- can be used)
+ * liboping (optional)
Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets.
<http://verplant.org/liboping/>
will be enabled). To enable a plugin, install missing dependencies (see
section `Prerequisites' above) and rerun `configure'. If you specify the
`--enable-<plugin>' configure option, the script will fail if the depen-
- dencies for the specified plugin are not met. If you specify the
- `--disable-<plugin>' configure option, the plugin will not be built. Both
- options are meant for package maintainers and should not be used in everyday
- situations.
+ dencies for the specified plugin are not met. In that case you can force the
+ plugin to be built using the `--enable-<plugin>=force' configure option.
+ This will most likely fail though unless you're working in a very unusual
+ setup and you really know what you're doing. If you specify the
+ `--disable-<plugin>' configure option, the plugin will not be built. If you
+ specify the `--enable-all-plugins' or `--disable-all-plugins' configure
+ options, all plugins will be enabled or disabled respectively by default.
+ Explicitly enabling or disabling a plugin overwrites the default for the
+ specified plugin. These options are meant for package maintainers and should
+ not be used in everyday situations.
By default, collectd will be installed into `/opt/collectd'. You can adjust
this setting by specifying the `--prefix' configure option - see INSTALL for