X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=430f52cdbb1f5e6b17399e2744a56cf249401844;hb=f8379dd45f4a43595f4027992696ee8d02908bff;hp=df50ed249c9ade65c25f5b6344003db82d8fb975;hpb=8139d94aa8a3e5f52ef4ae4357e394a7baf891fa;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index df50ed24..430f52cd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -283,6 +283,11 @@ Features - serial RX and TX of serial interfaces. Linux only; needs root privileges. + - sigrok + Uses libsigrok as a backend, allowing any sigrok-supported device + to have its measurements fed to collectd. This includes multimeters, + sound level meters, thermometers, and much more. + - snmp Read values from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring @@ -409,7 +414,7 @@ Features Sends data to Riemann, a stream processing and monitoring system. * Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following - plugins keep up informed about what's going on: + plugins keep us informed about what's going on: - logfile Writes logmessages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR. @@ -629,6 +634,10 @@ Prerequisites Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon. + * libmnl (optional) + Used by the `netlink' plugin. + + * libmodbus (optional) Used by the “modbus” plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The “modbus” plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent @@ -643,10 +652,6 @@ Prerequisites Required for the “netapp” plugin. This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp. - * libnetlink (optional) - Used, obviously, for the `netlink' plugin. - - * libnetsnmp (optional) For the `snmp' plugin. @@ -712,6 +717,11 @@ Prerequisites To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin. + * libsigrok (optional) + Used by the sigrok plugin. In addition, libsigrok depends on glib, + libzip, and optionally (depending on which drivers are enabled) on + libusb, libftdi and libudev. + * libstatgrab (optional) Used by various plugins to collect statistics on systems other than Linux and/or Solaris.