The files in this directory may be used to perform common tasks that aren't
-exactly `collectd's job. They may or may not require in-depth knowlege of RRD
+exactly `collectd's job. They may or may not require in-depth knowledge of RRD
files and/or `collectd's inner workings. Use at your own risk.
-PerlLib/
---------
- Perl modules to be used in conjunction with collectd. See the perldoc
-documentation of the .pm-files to find out what they're good for.
-
add_rra.sh
----------
Before version 3.9.0 collectd used to create a different set of RRAs. The
-most detailed of these old RRAs hat a one minute resolution. This script can
+most detailed of these old RRAs had a one minute resolution. This script can
be used to add three more RRAs: minimum, maximum and average with a ten second
-resolution and 2200 rows (~6 hours). This will make houly statistics much more
+resolution and 2200 rows (~6 hours). This will make hourly statistics much more
interesting. Please note that no sanity- checking whatsoever is performed. You
can seriously fuck up your RRD files if you don't know what you're doing.
collection.cgi
--------------
- Sample CGI script that creates graphs on the fly. The Perl module `RRDs' is
-needed (Debian package `librrds-perl').
+ Sample CGI script that creates graphs on the fly. The Perl modules `RRDs'
+(Debian package `librrds-perl'), `URI:Escape' (package liburi-perl),
+`HTML::Entities' (package libhtml-parser-perl) and a CGI capable web server
+(e.g. apache2 or boa) are needed. Simply install the script to a place where
+the webserver will treat it as a CGI script (/usr/lib/cgi-bin/ by default) and
+visit that page in a browser (http://localhost/cgi-bin/collection.cgi by
+default). Please refer to your webserver's documentation for more details.
+
+ Starting with version 4, collection.cgi requires a small config file, which
+should look something like this:
+
+ datadir: "/var/lib/collectd/rrd/"
+ libdir: "/usr/lib/collectd/"
+
+exec-munin.px
+-------------
+ Script to be used with the exec-plugin (see collectd-exec(5) for details)
+which executes munin plugins, parses the output and translates it to a format
+the exec-plugin understands. The features are limited - changing the munin
+plugins to use the output format understood by the exec-plugin is recommended.
+See the embedded POD documentation for more details:
+ $ perldoc contrib/exec-munin.px
+
+exec-smartctl
+-------------
+ Sample script for the exec plugin. Please refer to the documentation in the
+file - you will have to adapt it to your needs anyway.
extractDS.px
------------
prints a bash-script to STDOUT which should do most of the work for you. You
may still need to do some things by hand, read `README.migration' for more
details.
+
+redhat/
+-------
+ Spec-file and affiliated files to build an RedHat RPM package of collectd.
+
+snmp-data.conf
+--------------
+ Sample configuration for the SNMP plugin. This config includes a few standard
+<Data ..> definitions that you can include in your own config using the
+`Include' statement (available since version 4.2.0). The config includes some
+data that is defined in the IF-MIB, e. g. octet or packet counters, UPS-MIB and
+whatever people have send in. If you have some more definitions please send
+them in, so others can profit from it.
+
+solaris-smf
+-----------
+ Manifest file for the Solaris SMF system and detailed information on how to
+register collectd as a service with this system.
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