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@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ Features
Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
+ - conntrack
+ Number of nf_conntrack entries.
+
+ - 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
states.
@@ -76,6 +83,12 @@ Features
- filecount
Count the number of files in directories.
+ - fscache
+ Linux file-system based caching framework statistics.
+
+ - gmond
+ Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances.
+
- hddtemp
Harddisk temperatures using hddtempd.
@@ -98,16 +111,27 @@ Features
- irq
IRQ counters: Frequency in which certain interrupts occur.
+ - java
+ Integrates a `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM) to execute plugins in Java
+ bytecode. See âConfiguring with libjvmâ below.
+
- load
System load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
- 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).
+ - memcachec
+ Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached).
+
- memcached
Statistics of the memcached distributed caching system.
@@ -124,6 +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
@@ -149,6 +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.
@@ -179,6 +211,9 @@ Features
- processes
Process counts: Number of running, sleeping, zombie, ... processes.
+ - protocols
+ Counts various aspects of network protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, etc.
+
- rrdcached
RRDtool caching daemon (RRDcacheD) statistics.
@@ -197,6 +232,9 @@ Features
- swap
Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
+ - table
+ Parse table-like structured files.
+
- tail
Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
values.
@@ -210,9 +248,19 @@ Features
- teamspeak2
TeamSpeak2 server statistics.
+ - ted
+ Plugin to read values from `The Energy Detective' (TED).
+
- thermal
Linux ACPI thermal zone information.
+ - tokyotyrant
+ Reads the number of records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant
+ server.
+
+ - uptime
+ System uptime statistics.
+
- users
Users currently logged in.
@@ -230,6 +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:
@@ -264,6 +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:
@@ -306,6 +362,9 @@ Features
* Value processing can be controlled using the "filter chain" infrastructure
and "matches" and "targets". The following plugins are available:
+ - match_empty_counter
+ Match counter values which are currently zero.
+
- match_regex
Match values by their identifier based on regular expressions.
@@ -404,7 +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)
@@ -415,19 +475,42 @@ Prerequisites
For the `notify_email' plugin.
+ * libganglia (optional)
+ Used by the `gmond' plugin to process data received from Ganglia.
+
+ * libgcrypt (optional)
+ Used by the `network' plugin for encryption and authentication.
+
* libhal (optional)
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
+ libjvmâ below.
+
+ * libmemcached (optional)
+ Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
+
* libmysqlclient (optional)
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.
@@ -440,8 +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.
@@ -497,6 +579,9 @@ Prerequisites
* libxmms (optional)
+ * libyajl (optional)
+ Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin.
+
Configuring / Compiling / Installing
------------------------------------
@@ -511,10 +596,16 @@ Configuring / Compiling / Installing
will be enabled). To enable a plugin, install missing dependencies (see
section `Prerequisites' above) and rerun `configure'. If you specify the
`--enable-' configure option, the script will fail if the depen-
- dencies for the specified plugin are not met. If you specify the
- `--disable-' 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-=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-' 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
@@ -522,6 +613,42 @@ Configuring / Compiling / Installing
prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when creating
packages for collectd.
+Configuring with libjvm
+-----------------------
+
+ To determine the location of the required files of a Java installation is not
+ an easy task, because the locations vary with your kernel (Linux, SunOS, â¦)
+ and with your architecture (x86, SPARC, â¦) and there is no âjava-configâ
+ script we could use. Configuration of the JVM library is therefore a bit
+ tricky.
+
+ The easiest way to use the `--with-java=$JAVA_HOME' option, where
+ `$JAVA_HOME' is usually something like:
+ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14
+
+ The configure script will then use find(1) to look for the following files:
+
+ - jni.h
+ - jni_md.h
+ - libjvm.so
+
+ If found, appropriate CPP-flags and LD-flags are set and the following
+ library checks succeed.
+
+ If this doesn't work for you, you have the possibility to specify CPP-flags,
+ C-flags and LD-flags for the âJavaâ plugin by hand, using the following three
+ (environment) variables:
+
+ - JAVA_CPPFLAGS
+ - JAVA_CFLAGS
+ - JAVA_LDFLAGS
+
+ For example (shortened for demonstration purposes):
+
+ ./configure JAVA_CPPFLAGS="-I$JAVA_HOME/include -I$JAVA_HOME/include/linux"
+
+ Adding "-ljvm" to the JAVA_LDFLAGS is done automatically, you don't have to
+ do that.
Crosscompiling
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