erlang plugin: Hint towards epmd if erl_publish fails.

[collectd.git] / src / collectd-snmp.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd-snmp.pod b/src/collectd-snmp.pod
index 0019254..f34113d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd-snmp.pod
+++ b/src/collectd-snmp.pod
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ collectd-snmp - Documentation of collectd's C<snmp plugin>
       Version 1
       Community "community_string"
       Collect "std_traffic"
-      Inverval 120
+      Interval 120
     </Host>
     <Host "some.server.mydomain.org">
       Address "192.168.0.42"
@@ -67,9 +67,8 @@ and ten threads are used.
 Since the aim of the C<snmp plugin> is to provide a generic interface to SNMP,
 it's configuration is not trivial and may take some time.
 
-Since the C<Net-SNMP> library is used you can use all the environment
-variables that are interpreted by that package. See L<snmpcmd(1)> for more
-details.
+Since the C<Net-SNMP> library is used you can use all the environment variables
+that are interpreted by that package. See L<snmpcmd(1)> for more details.
 
 There are two types of blocks that can be contained in the
 C<E<lt>PluginE<nbsp>snmpE<gt>> block: B<Data> and B<Host>:
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ queried. The following options can be set:
 collectd's type that is to be used, e.E<nbsp>g. "if_octets" for interface
 traffic or "users" for a user count. The types are read from the B<TypesDB>
 (see L<collectd.conf(5)>), so you may want to check for which types are
-defined.
+defined. See L<types.db(5)> for a description of the format of this file.
 
 =item B<Table> I<true|false>
 
@@ -207,7 +206,7 @@ Set the address to connect to.
 
 =item B<Version> B<1>|B<2>
 
-Set the SNMP version to use. When giving B<2> version 2c is actually used.
+Set the SNMP version to use. When giving B<2> version C<2c> is actually used.
 Version 3 is not supported by this plugin.
 
 =item B<Community> I<Community>
@@ -222,16 +221,11 @@ before using it here.
 
 =item B<Interval> I<Seconds>
 
-Collect data from this host every I<Seconds> seconds. This value needs to be a
-multiple of the global B<Interval> setting and, if it is not, will be rounded
-B<down> to one and a warning is logged in this case. So if your global
-B<Interval> is set to I<10> and you configure I<25> here, it's rounded down to
-I<20>. By default the global B<Interval> setting will be used.
-
-This option is meant for devices with not much CPU power, e.E<nbsp>g. network
-equipment such as switches, embedded devices, rack monitoring systems and so
-on. Since the B<Step> of generated RRD files depends on this setting it's
-wise to select a reasonable value once and never change it.
+Collect data from this host every I<Seconds> seconds. This option is meant for
+devices with not much CPU power, e.E<nbsp>g. network equipment such as
+switches, embedded devices, rack monitoring systems and so on. Since the
+B<Step> of generated RRD files depends on this setting it's wise to select a
+reasonable value once and never change it.
 
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