X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=8a798553f640838d3e54c05e95ffc191464ac00e;hb=a49ed2ad7f046517f1e48b417a71ac2005362d2f;hp=436f1468b7471721e4406b9a92ac96f91014766f;hpb=fbb822b876e877c69be066ceca693769d4a9618a;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index 436f1468..8a798553 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ Features - load System load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. + - lpar + Detailed CPU statistics of the “Logical Partitions” virtualization + technique built into IBM's POWER processors. + - libvirt CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines. @@ -354,11 +358,17 @@ Features needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's done. + - write_graphite + Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite. + - 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. + - write_redis + Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server. + * Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following plugins keep up informed about what's going on: @@ -438,6 +448,10 @@ Features * Miscellaneous plugins: + - threshold + Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if + values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details. + - uuid Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going @@ -565,8 +579,10 @@ Prerequisites * libmodbus (optional) - Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. - + 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 + API changes other versions may or may not compile cleanly. + * libmysqlclient (optional) Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin. @@ -601,6 +617,9 @@ Prerequisites Used to capture packets by the `dns' plugin. + * libperfstat (optional) + Used by various plugins to gather statistics under AIX. + * libperl (optional) Obviously used by the `perl' plugin. The library has to be compiled with ithread support (introduced in Perl 5.6.0). @@ -616,7 +635,8 @@ Prerequisites * libpython (optional) - Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported. + Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, Python 2.3 and later and Python 3 + are supported. * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)