X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=97119ac5ef70336f31e484cc171f44120fe7705b;hb=765c149c2f753252f67a5575c1bddd3d3ee2b38f;hp=8c0be1dad000f6caf39a35cfff75d43200c2b0ee;hpb=3da24ea8c48268a64025dc4aae5bdf223d7dad0c;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index 8c0be1da..97119ac5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Features Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and voltage sensors. + - ascent + Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'. + - battery Batterycharge, -current and voltage of ACPI and PMU based laptop batteries. @@ -138,6 +141,10 @@ Features Network latency: Time to reach the default gateway or another given host. + - postgresql + PostgreSQL database statistics: active server connections, transaction + numbers, block IO, table row manipulations. + - processes Process counts: Number of running, sleeping, zombie, ... processes. @@ -156,6 +163,10 @@ Features - swap Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS.. + - tail + Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched + values. + - tape Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only. @@ -165,6 +176,10 @@ Features - users Users currently logged in. + - vmem + Virtual memory statistics, e. g. the number of page-ins/-outs or the + number of pagefaults. + - vserver System resources used by Linux VServers. See . @@ -219,6 +234,16 @@ Features * Notifications can be handled by the following plugins: + - notify_desktop + Send a desktop notification to a notification daemon, as defined in + the Desktop Notification Specification. To actually display the + notifications, notification-daemon is required. + See http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/. + + - notify_email + Send an E-mail with the notification message to the configured + recipients. + - exec Execute a program or script to handle the notification. See collectd-exec(5). @@ -304,8 +329,15 @@ Prerequisites used and should be found in various implementations for hopefully all platforms. + * CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework (optional) + For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in + particular. + * libcurl (optional) - If you want to use the `apache' and/or `nginx' plugins. + If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', or `nginx' plugin. + + * libesmtp (optional) + For the `notify_email' plugin. * libhal (optional) If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL. @@ -322,6 +354,9 @@ Prerequisites * libnetsnmp (optional) For the `snmp' plugin. + * libnotify (optional) + For the `notify_desktop' plugin. + * liboping (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution can be used) Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets. @@ -333,37 +368,36 @@ Prerequisites Obviously used by the `perl' plugin. The library has to be compiled with ithread support (introduced in Perl 5.6.0). + * libpq (optional) + The PostgreSQL C client library used by the `postgresql' plugin. + * librrd (optional; headers and library; rrdtool 1.0 and 1.2 both work fine) If built without `librrd' the resulting binary will be `client only', i.e. will send its values via multicast and not create any RRD files itself. Alternatively you can chose to write CSV-files (Comma Separated Values) instead. + * librt, libsocket, libkstat, libdevinfo (optional) + Various standard Solaris libraries which provide system functions. + * libsensors (optional) To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin. - * libstatgrab may be used to collect statistics on systems other than Linux - and/or Solaris. Note that CPU- and disk-statistics, while being provided - by this library, are not supported in collectd right now.. + * libstatgrab (optional) may be used to collect statistics on systems other + than Linux and/or Solaris. Note that CPU- and disk-statistics, while being + provided by this library, are not supported in collectd right now.. * libupsclient/nut (optional) For the `nut' plugin which queries nut's `upsd'. - * libxmms (optional) - - * librt, libsocket, libkstat, libdevinfo - Various standard Solaris libraries which provide system functions. - - * CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework - For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in - particular. - * libvirt (optional) Collect statistics from virtual machines. * libxml2 (optional) - Parse XML data provided by libvirt. + Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent' and `libvirt' plugins. + + * libxmms (optional) Configuring / Compiling / Installing