X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c3a594091f090ed408bb58fc3a2868ad3bd0c28d;hb=f154fb21fbb1fee2f2262d421eca32e7e340f420;hp=a1bf5ff21ec57fa35f53e6e719954b763c868eb8;hpb=2e23f7bfad1064476131be7d062dcef37b7f2a5e;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index a1bf5ff2..c3a59409 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ Features - conntrack Number of nf_conntrack entries. + - couchdb + Parse statistics from CouchDB JSON documents. + - cpu CPU utilization: Time spent in the system, user, nice, idle, and related states. @@ -79,6 +82,9 @@ Features - filecount Count the number of files in directories. + - fscache + Linux file-system based caching framework statistics. + - gmond Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances. @@ -118,6 +124,9 @@ Features 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. @@ -210,6 +219,9 @@ 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. @@ -229,6 +241,9 @@ Features - thermal Linux ACPI thermal zone information. + - uptime + System uptime statistics. + - users Users currently logged in. @@ -431,6 +446,12 @@ 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. @@ -445,6 +466,9 @@ Prerequisites used by the Java plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with libjvm” below. + * libmemcached (optional) + Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon. + * libmysqlclient (optional) Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin. @@ -518,6 +542,9 @@ Prerequisites * libxmms (optional) + * libyajl (optional) + Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `couchdb' plugin. + Configuring / Compiling / Installing ------------------------------------ @@ -532,10 +559,16 @@ 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