X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=70118ad1be008039ebce551745e422b0eb4a5e6c;hb=40f9ed6fcb9bd09662798023f6197f32a1dbfc58;hp=c3a594091f090ed408bb58fc3a2868ad3bd0c28d;hpb=e40c5242ad2ad284425bef8bb0958510c36c7870;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index c3a59409..70118ad1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 + “Manage ONTAP” 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 “Optimized Link State Routing” + 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. @@ -201,6 +214,12 @@ Features - protocols Counts various aspects of network protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, etc. + - python + The python plugin implements a Python interpreter into collectd. This + makes it possible to write plugins in Python which are executed by + collectd without the need to start a heavy interpreter every interval. + See collectd-python(5) for details. + - rrdcached RRDtool caching daemon (RRDcacheD) statistics. @@ -241,6 +260,10 @@ Features - 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. @@ -261,6 +284,9 @@ Features - xmms Bitrate and frequency of music played with XMMS. + - zfs_arc + Statistics for ZFS' “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC). + * Output can be written or send to various destinations by the following plugins: @@ -278,6 +304,10 @@ Features you can easily do weird stuff with the plugins we didn't dare think of ;) See collectd-perl(5). + - python + It's possible to implement write plugins in Python using the python + plugin. See collectd-python(5) for details. + - rrdcached Output to round-robin-database (RRD) files using the RRDtool caching daemon (RRDcacheD) - see rrdcached(1). That daemon provides a general @@ -295,6 +325,11 @@ 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: @@ -305,6 +340,10 @@ Features Log messages are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well. See collectd-perl(5). + - python + It's possible to implement log plugins in Python using the python plugin. + See collectd-python(5) for details. + - syslog Logs to the standard UNIX logging mechanism, syslog. @@ -334,9 +373,16 @@ Features Notifications are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well. See collectd-perl(5). + - python + It's possible to implement notification plugins in Python using the + python plugin. See collectd-python(5) for details. + * 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. @@ -435,7 +481,8 @@ 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) @@ -456,11 +503,16 @@ 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 “Configuring with @@ -473,6 +525,10 @@ Prerequisites Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin. + * libnatapp (optional) + 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. @@ -485,8 +541,7 @@ 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. @@ -508,6 +563,10 @@ Prerequisites The PostgreSQL C client library used by the `postgresql' plugin. + * libpython (optional) + Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported. + + * librrd (optional) Used by the `rrdtool' and `rrdcached' plugins. The latter requires RRDtool client support which was added after version 1.3 of RRDtool. Versions 1.0, @@ -543,7 +602,7 @@ 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