ignored. Values are either string, enclosed in double-quotes,
(floating-point-)numbers or a boolean expression, i.E<nbsp>e. either B<true> or
B<false>. String containing of only alphanumeric characters and underscores do
-not need to be quoted.
+not need to be quoted. Lines may be wrapped by using `\' as the last character
+before the newline. This allows long lines to be split into multiple lines.
+Quoted strings may be wrapped as well. However, those are treated special in
+that whitespace at the beginning of the following lines will be ignored, which
+allows for nicely indenting the wrapped lines.
The configuration is read and processed in order, i.E<nbsp>e. from top to
bottom. So the plugins are loaded in the order listed in this config file. It
Loads the plugin I<Plugin>. There must be at least one such line or B<collectd>
will be mostly useless.
-=item B<Include> I<File>
+=item B<Include> I<Path>
-Includes the file I<File> as if it was copy and pasted here. To prevent loops
-and shooting yourself in the foot in interesting ways the nesting is limited to
-a depth of 8E<nbsp>levels, which should be sufficient for most uses.
+If I<Path> points to a file, includes that file. If I<Path> points to a
+directory, recursively includes all files within that directory and its
+subdirectories. If the C<wordexp> function is available on your system,
+shell-like wildcards are expanded before files are included. This means you can
+use statements like the following:
+
+ Include "/etc/collectd.d/*.conf"
+
+If more than one files are included by a single B<Include> option, the files
+will be included in lexicographical order (as defined by the C<strcmp>
+function). Thus, you can e.E<nbsp>g. use numbered prefixes to specify the
+order in which the files are loaded.
+
+To prevent loops and shooting yourself in the foot in interesting ways the
+nesting is limited to a depth of 8E<nbsp>levels, which should be sufficient for
+most uses. Since symlinks are followed it is still possible to crash the daemon
+by looping symlinks. In our opinion significant stupidity should result in an
+appropriate amount of pain.
It is no problem to have a block like C<E<lt>Plugin fooE<gt>> in more than one
file, but you cannot include files from within blocks.
Path to the plugins (shared objects) of collectd.
-=item B<TypesDB> I<File>
+=item B<TypesDB> I<File> [I<File> ...]
-Set the file that contains the data-set descriptions.
+Set one or more files that contain the data-set descriptions. See
+L<types.db(5)> for a description of the format of this file.
=item B<Interval> I<Seconds>
Configures the interval in which to query the read plugins. Obviously smaller
-values lead to a higher system load produces by collectd, while higher values
+values lead to a higher system load produced by collectd, while higher values
lead to more coarse statistics.
=item B<ReadThreads> I<Num>
-Number of threads to start for reading plugins. The default value if B<5>, but
+Number of threads to start for reading plugins. The default value is B<5>, but
you may want to increase this if you have more than five plugins that take a
long time to read. Mostly those are plugin that do network-IO. Setting this to
a value higher than the number of plugins you've loaded is totally useless.
+=item B<Hostname> I<Name>
+
+Sets the hostname that identifies a host. If you omit this setting, the
+hostname will be determinded using the L<gethostname(2)> system call.
+
+=item B<FQDNLookup> B<true|false>
+
+If B<Hostname> is determined automatically this setting controls whether or not
+the daemon should try to figure out the "fully qualified domain name", FQDN.
+This is done using a lookup of the name returned by C<gethostname>.
+
+Using this feature (i.E<nbsp>e. setting this option to B<true>) is recommended.
+However, to preserve backwards compatibility the default is set to B<false>.
+The sample config file that is installed with C<makeE<nbsp>install> includes a
+line which sets this option, though, so that default installations will have
+this setting enabled.
+
=back
=head1 PLUGIN OPTIONS
Optional password needed for authentication.
+=item B<VerifyPeer> B<true|false>
+
+Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
+L<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html> for details. Enabled by default.
+
+=item B<VerifyHost> B<true|false>
+
+Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the plugin checks
+if the C<Common Name> or a C<Subject Alternate Name> field of the SSL
+certificate matches the host name provided by the B<URL> option. If this
+identity check fails, the connection is aborted. Obviously, only works when
+connecting to a SSL enabled server. Enabled by default.
+
=item B<CACert> I<File>
File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use HTTPS you will
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<ascent>
+
+This plugin collects information about an Ascent server, a free server for the
+"World of Warcraft" game. This plugin gathers the information by fetching the
+XML status page using C<libcurl> and parses it using C<libxml2>.
+
+The configuration options are the same as for the C<apache> plugin above:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<URL> I<http://localhost/ascent/status/>
+
+Sets the URL of the XML status output.
+
+=item B<User> I<Username>
+
+Optional user name needed for authentication.
+
+=item B<Password> I<Password>
+
+Optional password needed for authentication.
+
+=item B<VerifyPeer> B<true|false>
+
+Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
+L<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html> for details. Enabled by default.
+
+=item B<VerifyHost> B<true|false>
+
+Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the plugin checks
+if the C<Common Name> or a C<Subject Alternate Name> field of the SSL
+certificate matches the host name provided by the B<URL> option. If this
+identity check fails, the connection is aborted. Obviously, only works when
+connecting to a SSL enabled server. Enabled by default.
+
+=item B<CACert> I<File>
+
+File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use HTTPS you will
+possibly need this option. What CA certificates come bundled with C<libcurl>
+and are checked by default depends on the distribution you use.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<cpufreq>
This plugin doesn't have any options. It reads
Set the directory to store CSV-files under. Per default CSV-files are generated
beneath the daemon's working directory, i.E<nbsp>e. the B<BaseDir>.
+=item B<StoreRates> B<true|false>
+
+If set to B<true>, convert counter values to rates. If set to B<false> (the
+default) counter values are stored as is, i.E<nbsp>e. as an increasing integer
+number.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<df>
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<disk>
+
+The C<disk> plugin collects information about the usage of physical disks and
+logical disks (partitions). Values collected are the number of octets written
+to and read from a disk or partition, the number of read/write operations
+issued to the disk and a rather complex "time" it took for these commands to be
+issued.
+
+Using the following two options you can ignore some disks or configure the
+collection only of specific disks.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Disk> I<Name>
+
+Select the disk I<Name>. Whether it is collected or ignored depends on the
+B<IgnoreSelected> setting, see below. As with other plugins that use the
+daemon's ignorelist functionality, a string that starts and ends with a slash
+is interpreted as a regular expression. Examples:
+
+ Disk "sdd"
+ Disk "/hda[34]/"
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelected> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Sets whether selected disks, i.E<nbsp>e. the ones matches by any of the B<Disk>
+statements, are ignored or if all other disks are ignored. The behavior
+(hopefully) is intuitive: If no B<Disk> option is configured, all disks are
+collected. If at least one B<Disk> option is given and no B<IgnoreSelected> or
+set to B<false>, B<only> matching disks will be collected. If B<IgnoreSelected>
+is set to B<true>, all disks are collected B<except> the ones matched.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<dns>
=over 4
=over 4
-=item B<Exec> I<User>[:[I<Group>]] I<Executable>
+=item B<Exec> I<User>[:[I<Group>]] I<Executable> [I<E<lt>argE<gt>> [I<E<lt>argE<gt>> ...]]
+
+=item B<NotificationExec> I<User>[:[I<Group>]] I<Executable> [I<E<lt>argE<gt>> [I<E<lt>argE<gt>> ...]]
Execute the executable I<Executable> as user I<User>. If the user name is
followed by a colon and a group name, the effective group is set to that group.
specify the same user/group here. If the daemon is run with superuser
privileges, you must supply a non-root user here.
+The executable may be followed by optional arguments that are passed to the
+program. Please note that due to the configuration parsing numbers and boolean
+values may be changed. If you want to be absolutely sure that something is
+passed as-is please enclose it in quotes.
+
+The B<Exec> and B<NotificationExec> statements change the semantics of the
+programs executed, i.E<nbsp>e. the data passed to them and the response
+expected from them. This is documented in great detail in L<collectd-exec(5)>.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<hddtemp>
TCP-Port to connect to. Defaults to B<7634>.
+=item B<TranslateDevicename> I<true>|I<false>
+
+If enabled, translate the disk names to major/minor device numbers
+(e.E<nbsp>g. "8-0" for /dev/sda). For backwards compatibility this defaults to
+I<true> but it's recommended to disable it as it will probably be removed in
+the next major version.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<interface>
interfaces you're interested in. Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred
to collect all interfaces I<except> a few ones. This option enables you to
do that: By setting B<IgnoreSelected> to I<true> the effect of
-B<Interface> is inversed: All selected interfaces are ignored and all
+B<Interface> is inverted: All selected interfaces are ignored and all
other interfaces are collected.
=back
can use the B<Irq>-option to pick the interrupt you're interested in.
Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred to collect all interrupts I<except> a
few ones. This option enables you to do that: By setting B<IgnoreSelected> to
-I<true> the effect of B<Irq> is inversed: All selected interrupts are ignored
+I<true> the effect of B<Irq> is inverted: All selected interrupts are ignored
and all other interrupts are collected.
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<libvirt>
+
+This plugin allows CPU, disk and network load to be collected for virtualized
+guests on the machine. This means that these characteristics can be collected
+for guest systems without installing any software on them - collectd only runs
+on the hosting system. The statistics are collected through libvirt
+(L<http://libvirt.org/>).
+
+Only I<Connection> is required.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Connection> I<uri>
+
+Connect to the hypervisor given by I<uri>. For example if using Xen use:
+
+ Connection "xen:///"
+
+Details which URIs allowed are given at L<http://libvirt.org/uri.html>.
+
+=item B<RefreshInterval> I<seconds>
+
+Refresh the list of domains and devices every I<seconds>. The default is 60
+seconds. Setting this to be the same or smaller than the I<Interval> will cause
+the list of domains and devices to be refreshed on every iteration.
+
+Refreshing the devices in particular is quite a costly operation, so if your
+virtualization setup is static you might consider increasing this. If this
+option is set to 0, refreshing is disabled completely.
+
+=item B<Domain> I<name>
+
+=item B<BlockDevice> I<name:dev>
+
+=item B<InterfaceDevice> I<name:dev>
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelected> I<true>|I<false>
+
+Select which domains and devices are collected.
+
+If I<IgnoreSelected> is not given or I<false> then only the listed domains and
+disk/network devices are collected.
+
+If I<IgnoreSelected> is I<true> then the test is reversed and the listed
+domains and disk/network devices are ignored, while the rest are collected.
+
+The domain name and device names may use a regular expression, if the name is
+surrounded by I</.../> and collectd was compiled with support for regexps.
+
+The default is to collect statistics for all domains and all their devices.
+
+Example:
+
+ BlockDevice "/:hdb/"
+ IgnoreSelected "true"
+
+Ignore all I<hdb> devices on any domain, but other block devices (eg. I<hda>)
+will be collected.
+
+=item B<HostnameFormat> B<name|uuid|hostname|...>
+
+When the libvirt plugin logs data, it sets the hostname of the collected data
+according to this setting. The default is to use the guest name as provided by
+the hypervisor, which is equal to setting B<name>.
+
+B<uuid> means use the guest's UUID. This is useful if you want to track the
+same guest across migrations.
+
+B<hostname> means to use the global B<Hostname> setting, which is probably not
+useful on its own because all guests will appear to have the same name.
+
+You can also specify combinations of these fields. For example B<name uuid>
+means to concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal colon character
+between, thus I<"foo:1234-1234-1234-1234">).
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<logfile>
=over 4
The C<mbmon plugin> uses mbmon to retrieve temperature, voltage, etc.
-Be default collectd connects to B<localhost> (127.0.0.1), port B<411/tcp>. The
+Be default collectd connects to B<localhost> (127.0.0.1), port B<411/tcp>. The
B<Host> and B<Port> options can be used to change these values, see below.
C<mbmon> has to be running to work correctly. If C<mbmon> is not running
timeouts may appear which may interfere with other statistics..
Filters don't necessarily have a handle, therefore the parent's handle is used.
The notation used in collectd differs from that used in tc(1) in that it
doesn't skip the major or minor number if it's zero and doesn't print special
-ids by their name. So, for example, a qdisc may be identified by
+ids by their name. So, for example, a qdisc may be identified by
C<pfifo_fast-1:0> even though the minor number of B<all> qdiscs is zero and
thus not displayed by tc(1).
The behaviour is the same as with all other similar plugins: If nothing is
selected at all, everything is collected. If some things are selected using the
options described above, only these statistics are collected. If you set
-B<IgnoreSelected> to B<true>, this behavior is inversed, i.E<nbsp>e. the
+B<IgnoreSelected> to B<true>, this behavior is inverted, i.E<nbsp>e. the
specified statistics will not be collected.
=back
Optional password needed for authentication.
+=item B<VerifyPeer> B<true|false>
+
+Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
+L<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html> for details. Enabled by default.
+
+=item B<VerifyHost> B<true|false>
+
+Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the plugin checks
+if the C<Common Name> or a C<Subject Alternate Name> field of the SSL
+certificate matches the host name provided by the B<URL> option. If this
+identity check fails, the connection is aborted. Obviously, only works when
+connecting to a SSL enabled server. Enabled by default.
+
=item B<CACert> I<File>
File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use HTTPS you will
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<notify_desktop>
+
+This plugin sends a desktop notification to a notification daemon, as defined
+in the Desktop Notification Specification. To actually display the
+notifications, B<notification-daemon> is required and B<collectd> has to be
+able to access the X server.
+
+The Desktop Notification Specification can be found at
+L<http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/>.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<OkayTimeout> I<timeout>
+
+=item B<WarningTimeout> I<timeout>
+
+=item B<FailureTimeout> I<timeout>
+
+Set the I<timeout>, in milliseconds, after which to expire the notification
+for C<OKAY>, C<WARNING> and C<FAILURE> severities respectively. If zero has
+been specified, the displayed notification will not be closed at all - the
+user has to do so herself. These options default to 5000. If a negative number
+has been specified, the default is used as well.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<ntpd>
=over 4
UDP-Port to connect to. Defaults to B<123>.
+=item B<ReverseLookups> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Sets wether or not to perform reverse lookups on peers. Since the name or
+IP-address may be used in a filename it is recommended to disable reverse
+lookups. The default is to do reverse lookups to preserve backwards
+compatibility, though.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<nut>
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<onewire>
+
+The C<onewire> plugin uses the B<owcapi> library from the B<owfs> project
+L<http://owfs.org/> to read sensors connected via the onewire bus.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Device> I<Device>
+
+Sets the device to read the values from. This can either be a "real" hardware
+device, such as a serial port or an USB port, or the address of the
+L<owserver(1)> socket, usually B<localhost:4304>.
+
+Though the documentation claims to automatically recognize the given address
+format, with versionE<nbsp>2.7p4 we had to specify the type explicitly. So
+with that version, the following configuration worked for us:
+
+ <Plugin onewire>
+ Device "-s localhost:4304"
+ </Plugin>
+
+=item B<Sensor> I<Sensor>
+
+Selects sensors to collect or to ignore, depending on B<IgnoreSelected>, see
+below. Sensors are specified without the family byte at the beginning, to you'd
+use C<F10FCA000800>, and B<not> include the leading C<10.> family byte and
+point.
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelected> I<true>|I<false>
+
+If no configuration if given, the B<onewire> plugin will collect data from all
+sensors found. This may not be practical, especially if sensors are added and
+removed regularly. Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred to collect only
+specific sensors or all sensors I<except> a few specified ones. This option
+enables you to do that: By setting B<IgnoreSelected> to I<true> the effect of
+B<Sensor> is inverted: All selected interfaces are ignored and all other
+interfaces are collected.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<perl>
This plugin embeds a Perl-interpreter into collectd and provides an interface
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<postgresql>
+
+The C<postgresql> plugin queries statistics from PostgreSQL databases. It
+keeps a persistent connection to all configured databases and tries to
+reconnect if the connection has been interrupted. The statistics are collected
+from PostgreSQL's B<statistics collector> which thus has to be enabled for
+this plugin to work correctly. This should usually be the case by default.
+See the section "The Statistics Collector" of the B<PostgreSQL Documentation>
+for details.
+
+The B<PostgreSQL Documentation> manual can be found at
+L<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/>.
+
+ <Plugin postgresql>
+ <Database foo>
+ Host "hostname"
+ Port "5432"
+ User "username"
+ Password "secret"
+ SSLMode "prefer"
+ KRBSrvName "kerberos_service_name"
+ </Database>
+ <Database bar>
+ Service "service_name"
+ </Database>
+ </Plugin>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Database> block
+
+The B<Database> block defines one PostgreSQL database for which to collect
+statistics. It accepts a single mandatory argument which specifies the
+database name. None of the other options are required. PostgreSQL will use
+default values as documented in the section "CONNECTING TO A DATABASE" in the
+L<psql(1)> manpage. However, be aware that those defaults may be influenced by
+the user collectd is run as and special environment variables. See the manpage
+for details.
+
+=item B<Host> I<hostname>
+
+Specify the hostname or IP of the PostgreSQL server to connect to. If the
+value begins with a slash, it is interpreted as the directory name in which to
+look for the UNIX domain socket.
+
+This option is also used to determine the hostname that is associated with a
+collected data set. If it has been omitted or either begins with with a slash
+or equals B<localhost> it will be replaced with the global hostname definition
+of collectd. Any other value will be passed literally to collectd when
+dispatching values. Also see the global B<Hostname> and B<FQDNLookup> options.
+
+=item B<Port> I<port>
+
+Specify the TCP port or the local UNIX domain socket file extension of the
+server.
+
+=item B<User> I<username>
+
+Specify the username to be used when connecting to the server.
+
+=item B<Password> I<password>
+
+Specify the password to be used when connecting to the server.
+
+=item B<SSLMode> I<disable>|I<allow>|I<prefer>|I<require>
+
+Specify whether to use an SSL connection when contacting the server. The
+following modes are supported:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item I<disable>
+
+Do not use SSL at all.
+
+=item I<allow>
+
+First, try to connect without using SSL. If that fails, try using SSL.
+
+=item I<prefer> (default)
+
+First, try to connect using SSL. If that fails, try without using SSL.
+
+=item I<require>
+
+Use SSL only.
+
+=back
+
+=item B<KRBSrvName> I<kerberos_service_name>
+
+Specify the Kerberos service name to use when authenticating with Kerberos 5
+or GSSAPI. See the sections "Kerberos authentication" and "GSSAPI" of the
+B<PostgreSQL Documentation> for details.
+
+=item B<Service> I<service_name>
+
+Specify the PostgreSQL service name to use for additional parameters. That
+service has to be defined in F<pg_service.conf> and holds additional
+connection parameters. See the section "The Connection Service File" in the
+B<PostgreSQL Documentation> for details.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Plugin C<powerdns>
+
+The C<powerdns> plugin queries statistics from an authoritative PowerDNS
+nameserver and/or a PowerDNS recursor. Since both offer a wide variety of
+values, many of which are probably meaningless to most users, but may be useful
+for some. So you may chose which values to collect, but if you don't, some
+reasonable defaults will be collected.
+
+ <Plugin "powerdns">
+ <Server "server_name">
+ Collect "latency"
+ Collect "udp-answers" "udp-queries"
+ Socket "/var/run/pdns.controlsocket"
+ </Server>
+ <Recursor "recursor_name">
+ Collect "questions"
+ Collect "cache-hits" "cache-misses"
+ Socket "/var/run/pdns_recursor.controlsocket"
+ </Recursor>
+ LocalSocket "/opt/collectd/var/run/collectd-powerdns"
+ </Plugin>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Server> and B<Recursor> block
+
+The B<Server> block defines one authoritative server to query, the B<Recursor>
+does the same for an recursing server. The possible options in both blocks are
+the same, though. The argument defines a name for the serverE<nbsp>/ recursor
+and is required.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Collect> I<Field>
+
+Using the B<Collect> statement you can select which values to collect. Here,
+you specify the name of the values as used by the PowerDNS servers, e.E<nbsp>g.
+C<dlg-only-drops>, C<answers10-100>.
+
+The method of getting the values differs for B<Server> and B<Recursor> blocks:
+When querying the server a C<SHOW *> command is issued in any case, because
+that's the only way of getting multiple values out of the server at once.
+collectd then picks out the values you have selected. When querying the
+recursor, a command is generated to query exactly these values. So if you
+specify invalid fields when querying the recursor, a syntax error may be
+returned by the daemon and collectd may not collect any values at all.
+
+If no B<Collect> statement is given, the following B<Server> values will be
+collected:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item latency
+
+=item packetcache-hit
+
+=item packetcache-miss
+
+=item packetcache-size
+
+=item query-cache-hit
+
+=item query-cache-miss
+
+=item recursing-answers
+
+=item recursing-questions
+
+=item tcp-answers
+
+=item tcp-queries
+
+=item udp-answers
+
+=item udp-queries
+
+=back
+
+The following B<Recursor> values will be collected by default:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item noerror-answers
+
+=item nxdomain-answers
+
+=item servfail-answers
+
+=item sys-msec
+
+=item user-msec
+
+=item qa-latency
+
+=item cache-entries
+
+=item cache-hits
+
+=item cache-misses
+
+=item questions
+
+=back
+
+Please note that up to that point collectd doesn't know what values are
+available on the server and values that are added do not need a change of the
+mechanism so far. However, the values must be mapped to collectd's naming
+scheme, which is done using a lookup table that lists all known values. If
+values are added in the future and collectd does not know about them, you will
+get an error much like this:
+
+ powerdns plugin: submit: Not found in lookup table: foobar = 42
+
+In this case please file a bug report with the collectd team.
+
+=item B<Socket> I<Path>
+
+Configures the path to the UNIX domain socket to be used when connecting to the
+daemon. By default C</var/run/pdns.controlsocket> will be used for an
+authoritative server and C</var/run/pdns_recursor.controlsocket> will be used
+for the recursor.
+
+=back
+
+=item B<LocalSocket> I<Path>
+
+Querying the recursor is done using UDP. When using UDP over UNIX domain
+sockets, the client socket needs a name in the file system, too. You can set
+this local name to I<Path> using the B<LocalSocket> option. The default is
+C<I<prefix>/var/run/collectd-powerdns>.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<processes>
=over 4
Thus, you can use the B<Sensor>-option to pick the sensors you're interested
in. Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred to collect all sensors I<except> a
few ones. This option enables you to do that: By setting B<IgnoreSelected> to
-I<true> the effect of B<Sensor> is inversed: All selected sensors are ignored
+I<true> the effect of B<Sensor> is inverted: All selected sensors are ignored
and all other sensors are collected.
=back
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<tail>
+
+The C<tail plugin> plugins follows logfiles, just like L<tail(1)> does, parses
+each line and dispatches found values. What is matched can be configured by the
+user using (extended) regular expressions, as described in L<regex(7)>.
+
+ <Plugin "tail">
+ <File "/var/log/exim4/mainlog">
+ Instance "exim"
+ <Match>
+ Regex "S=([1-9][0-9]*)"
+ DSType "CounterAdd"
+ Type "ipt_bytes"
+ Instance "total"
+ </Match>
+ <Match>
+ Regex "\\<R=local_user\\>"
+ DSType "CounterInc"
+ Type "email_count"
+ Instance "local_user"
+ </Match>
+ </File>
+ </Plugin>
+
+The config consists of one or more B<File> blocks, each of which configures one
+logfile to parse. Within each B<File> block, there are one or more B<Match>
+blocks, which configure a regular expression to search for.
+
+The B<Instance> option in the B<File> block may be used to set the plugin
+instance. So in the above example the plugin name C<tail-foo> would be used.
+This plugin instance is for all B<Match> blocks that B<follow> it, until the
+next B<Instance> option. This way you can extract several plugin instances from
+one logfile, handy when parsing syslog and the like.
+
+Each B<Match> block has the following options to describe how the match should
+be performed:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Regex> I<regex>
+
+Sets the regular expression to use for matching against a line. The first
+subexpression has to match something that can be turned into a number by
+L<strtoll(3)> or L<strtod(3)>, depending on the value of C<CounterAdd>, see
+below. Because B<extended> regular expressions are used, you do not need to use
+backslashes for subexpressions! If in doubt, please consult L<regex(7)>. Due to
+collectd's config parsing you need to escape backslashes, though. So if you
+want to match literal parentheses you need to do the following:
+
+ Regex "SPAM \\(Score: (-?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)\\)"
+
+=item B<DSType> I<Type>
+
+Sets how the values are cumulated. I<Type> is one of:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<GaugeAverage>
+
+Calculate the average.
+
+=item B<GaugeMin>
+
+Use the smallest number only.
+
+=item B<GaugeMax>
+
+Use the greatest number only.
+
+=item B<GaugeLast>
+
+Use the last number found.
+
+=item B<CounterSet>
+
+The matched number is a counter. Simply sets the internal counter to this
+value.
+
+=item B<CounterAdd>
+
+Add the matched value to the internal counter.
+
+=item B<CounterInc>
+
+Increase the internal counter by one. This B<DSType> is the only one that does
+not use the matched subexpression, but simply counts the number of matched
+lines. Thus, you may use a regular expression without submatch in this case.
+
+=back
+
+As you'd expect the B<Gauge*> types interpret the submatch as a floating point
+number, using L<strtod(3)>. The B<CounterSet> and B<CounterAdd> interpret the
+submatch as an integer using L<strtoll(3)>. B<CounterInc> does not use the
+submatch at all and it may be omitted in this case.
+
+=item B<Type> I<Type>
+
+Sets the type used to dispatch this value. Detailed information about types and
+their configuration can be found in L<types.db(5)>.
+
+=item B<Instance> I<TypeInstance>
+
+This optional setting sets the type instance to use.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Plugin C<teamspeak2>
+
+The C<teamspeak2 plugin> connects to the query port of a teamspeak2 server and
+polls interesting global and virtual server data. The plugin can query only one
+physical server but unlimited virtual servers. You can use the following
+options to configure it:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Host> I<hostname/ip>
+
+The hostname or ip which identifies the physical server.
+Default: 127.0.0.1
+
+=item B<Port> I<port>
+
+The query port of the physical server. This needs to be a string.
+Default: "51234"
+
+=item B<Server> I<port>
+
+This option has to be added once for every virtual server the plugin should
+query. If you want to query the virtual server on port 8767 this is what the
+option would look like:
+
+ Server "8767"
+
+This option, although numeric, needs to be a string, i.E<nbsp>e. you B<must>
+use quotes around it! If no such statement is given only global information
+will be collected.
+
=head2 Plugin C<tcpconns>
The C<tcpconns plugin> counts the number of currently established TCP
=over 4
+=back
+
=item B<ListeningPorts> I<true>|I<false>
If this option is set to I<true>, statistics for all local ports for which a
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<thermal>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<ForceUseProcfs> I<true>|I<false>
+
+By default, the C<thermal> plugin tries to read the statistics from the Linux
+C<sysfs> interface. If that is not available, the plugin falls back to the
+C<procfs> interface. By setting this option to I<true>, you can force the
+plugin to use the latter. This option defaults to I<false>.
+
+=item B<Device> I<Device>
+
+Selects the name of the thermal device that you want to collect or ignore,
+depending on the value of the B<IgnoreSelected> option. This option may be
+used multiple times to specify a list of devices.
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelected> I<true>|I<false>
+
+Invert the selection: If set to true, all devices B<except> the ones that
+match the device names specified by the B<Device> option are collected. By
+default only selected devices are collected if a selection is made. If no
+selection is configured at all, B<all> devices are selected.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<unixsock>
=over 4
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<uuid>
+
+This plugin, if loaded, causes the Hostname to be taken from the machine's
+UUID. The UUID is a universally unique designation for the machine, usually
+taken from the machine's BIOS. This is most useful if the machine is running in
+a virtual environment such as Xen, in which case the UUID is preserved across
+shutdowns and migration.
+
+The following methods are used to find the machine's UUID, in order:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item
+
+Check I</etc/uuid> (or I<UUIDFile>).
+
+=item
+
+Check for UUID from HAL (L<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal>) if
+present.
+
+=item
+
+Check for UUID from C<dmidecode> / SMBIOS.
+
+=item
+
+Check for UUID from Xen hypervisor.
+
+=back
+
+If no UUID can be found then the hostname is not modified.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<UUIDFile> I<Path>
+
+Take the UUID from the given file (default I</etc/uuid>).
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Plugin C<vmem>
+
+The C<vmem> plugin collects information about the usage of virtual memory.
+Since the statistics provided by the Linux kernel are very detailed, they are
+collected very detailed. However, to get all the details, you have to switch
+them on manually. Most people just want an overview over, such as the number of
+pages read from swap space.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Verbose> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enables verbose collection of information. This will start collecting page
+"actions", e.E<nbsp>g. page allocations, (de)activations, steals and so on.
+Part of these statistics are collected on a "per zone" basis.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<vserver>
This plugin doesn't have any options. B<VServer> support is only available for
The B<VServer> homepage can be found at L<http://linux-vserver.org/>.
+=head1 THRESHOLD CONFIGURATION
+
+Starting with version C<4.3.0> collectd has support for B<monitoring>. By that
+we mean that the values are not only stored or sent somewhere, but that they
+are judged and, if a problem is recognized, acted upon. The only action
+collectd takes itself is to generate and dispatch a "notification". Plugins can
+register to receive notifications and perform appropriate further actions.
+
+Since systems and what you expect them to do differ a lot, you can configure
+B<thresholds> for your values freely. This gives you a lot of flexibility but
+also a lot of responsibility.
+
+Every time a value is out of range a notification is dispatched. This means
+that the idle percentage of your CPU needs to be less then the configured
+threshold only once for a notification to be generated. There's no such thing
+as a moving average or similar - at least not now.
+
+Also, all values that match a threshold are considered to be relevant or
+"interesting". As a consequence collectd will issue a notification if they are
+not received for twice the last timeout of the values. If, for example, some
+hosts sends it's CPU statistics to the server every 60 seconds, a notification
+will be dispatched after about 120 seconds. It may take a little longer because
+the timeout is checked only once each B<Interval> on the server.
+
+Here is a configuration example to get you started. Read below for more
+information.
+
+ <Threshold>
+ <Type "foo">
+ WarningMin 0.00
+ WarningMax 1000.00
+ FailureMin 0.00
+ FailureMax 1200.00
+ Invert false
+ Instance "bar"
+ </Type>
+
+ <Plugin "interface">
+ Instance "eth0"
+ <Type "if_octets">
+ FailureMax 10000000
+ DataSource "rx"
+ </Type>
+ </Plugin>
+
+ <Host "hostname">
+ <Type "cpu">
+ Instance "idle"
+ FailureMin 10
+ </Type>
+
+ <Plugin "memory">
+ <Type "memory">
+ Instance "cached"
+ WarningMin 100000000
+ </Type>
+ </Plugin>
+ </Host>
+ </Threshold>
+
+There are basically two types of configuration statements: The C<Host>,
+C<Plugin>, and C<Type> blocks select the value for which a threshold should be
+configured. The C<Plugin> and C<Type> blocks may be specified further using the
+C<Instance> option. You can combine the block by nesting the blocks, though
+they must be nested in the above order, i.E<nbsp>e. C<Host> may contain either
+C<Plugin> and C<Type> blocks, C<Plugin> may only contain C<Type> blocks and
+C<Type> may not contain other blocks. If multiple blocks apply to the same
+value the most specific block is used.
+
+The other statements specify the threshold to configure. They B<must> be
+included in a C<Type> block. Currently the following statements are recognized:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<FailureMax> I<Value>
+
+=item B<WarningMax> I<Value>
+
+Sets the upper bound of acceptable values. If unset defaults to positive
+infinity. If a value is greater than B<FailureMax> a B<FAILURE> notification
+will be created. If the value is greater than B<WarningMax> but less than (or
+equal to) B<FailureMax> a B<WARNING> notification will be created.
+
+=item B<FailureMin> I<Value>
+
+=item B<WarningMin> I<Value>
+
+Sets the lower bound of acceptable values. If unset defaults to negative
+infinity. If a value is less than B<FailureMin> a B<FAILURE> notification will
+be created. If the value is less than B<WarningMin> but greater than (or equal
+to) B<FailureMin> a B<WARNING> notification will be created.
+
+=item B<DataSource> I<DSName>
+
+Some data sets have more than one "data source". Interesting examples are the
+C<if_octets> data set, which has received (C<rx>) and sent (C<tx>) bytes and
+the C<disk_ops> data set, which holds C<read> and C<write> operations. The
+system load data set, C<load>, even has three data sources: C<shortterm>,
+C<midterm>, and C<longterm>.
+
+Normally, all data sources are checked against a configured threshold. If this
+is undesirable, or if you want to specify different limits for each data
+source, you can use the B<DataSource> option to have a threshold apply only to
+one data source.
+
+=item B<Invert> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If set to B<true> the range of acceptable values is inverted, i.E<nbsp>e.
+values between B<FailureMin> and B<FailureMax> (B<WarningMin> and
+B<WarningMax>) are not okay. Defaults to B<false>.
+
+=item B<Persist> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Sets how often notifications are generated. If set to B<true> one notification
+will be generated for each value that is out of the acceptable range. If set to
+B<false> (the default) then a notification is only generated if a value is out
+of range but the previous value was okay.
+
+This applies to missing values, too: If set to B<true> a notification about a
+missing value is generated once every B<Interval> seconds. If set to B<false>
+only one such notification is generated until the value appears again.
+
+=back
+
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<collectd(1)>,
L<collectd-exec(5)>,
L<collectd-perl(5)>,
L<collectd-unixsock(5)>,
+L<types.db(5)>,
L<hddtemp(8)>,
L<kstat(3KSTAT)>,
L<mbmon(1)>,
+L<psql(1)>,
L<rrdtool(1)>,
L<sensors(1)>
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