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@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ Features
- conntrack
Number of nf_conntrack entries.
- - couchdb
- Parse statistics from CouchDB JSON documents.
+ - curl_json
+ Retrieves JSON data via cURL and parses it according to user
+ configuration.
- cpu
CPU utilization: Time spent in the system, user, nice, idle, and related
@@ -120,6 +121,10 @@ Features
- libvirt
CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+ - madwifi
+ Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and
+ interfaces that use the Atheros chipset and the MadWifi driver.
+
- mbmon
Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
@@ -143,6 +148,10 @@ Features
MySQL server statistics: Commands issued, handlers triggered, thread
usage, query cache utilization and traffic/octets sent and received.
+ - netapp
+ Plugin to query performance values from a NetApp storage system using the
+ âManage ONTAPâ SDK provided by NetApp.
+
- netlink
Very detailed Linux network interface and routing statistics. You can get
(detailed) information on interfaces, qdiscs, classes, and, if you can
@@ -168,6 +177,10 @@ Features
Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
+ - olsr
+ Queries routing information from the âOptimized Link State Routingâ
+ daemon.
+
- onewire (EXPERIMENTAL!)
Read onewire sensors using the owcapu library of the owfs project.
Please read in collectd.conf(5) why this plugin is experimental.
@@ -242,7 +255,8 @@ Features
Linux ACPI thermal zone information.
- tokyotyrant
- Record in and file size of a Tokyo Cabinet database file.
+ Reads the number of records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant
+ server.
- uptime
System uptime statistics.
@@ -264,6 +278,9 @@ Features
- xmms
Bitrate and frequency of music played with XMMS.
+ - zfs_arc
+ Statistics for ZFS' âAdaptive Replacement Cacheâ (ARC).
+
* Output can be written or send to various destinations by the following
plugins:
@@ -298,6 +315,11 @@ Features
needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
done.
+ - write_http
+ Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
+ requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
+ Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
+
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
@@ -441,7 +463,8 @@ Prerequisites
Used by the `oracle' plugin.
* libcurl (optional)
- If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl' or `nginx' plugin.
+ If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl', `nginx', or `write_http'
+ plugin.
* libdbi (optional)
@@ -462,11 +485,16 @@ Prerequisites
If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
- * 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.
+ 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 âConfiguring with
@@ -479,6 +507,10 @@ Prerequisites
Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin.
+ * libnatapp (optional)
+ Required for the ânetappâ plugin.
+ This library is part of the âManage ONTAP SDKâ published by NetApp.
+
* libnetlink (optional)
Used, obviously, for the `netlink' plugin.
@@ -491,8 +523,7 @@ Prerequisites
For the `notify_desktop' plugin.
- * 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.
@@ -549,7 +580,7 @@ Prerequisites
* libyajl (optional)
- Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `couchdb' plugin.
+ Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin.
Configuring / Compiling / Installing