X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=e47493ac23c4acb1f6809f30a138ea7a6d062a8b;hb=bc51ef217e871b80152eccd4e5f32659500f75f3;hp=b641741154a9fffda39c92a5c870bdc993de905e;hpb=3f391479bfc45d0ff6e0c7b87c899e41a192f392;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index b6417411..e47493ac 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ Features Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel' interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later. + - 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. @@ -76,6 +82,9 @@ Features - filecount Count the number of files in directories. + - gmond + Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances. + - hddtemp Harddisk temperatures using hddtempd. @@ -98,6 +107,10 @@ Features - irq IRQ counters: Frequency in which certain interrupts occur. + - java + Integrates a `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM) to execute plugins in Java + bytecode. See “Configuring with libjvm” below. + - load System load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. @@ -179,6 +192,9 @@ Features - processes Process counts: Number of running, sleeping, zombie, ... processes. + - protocols + Counts various aspects of network protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, etc. + - rrdcached RRDtool caching daemon (RRDcacheD) statistics. @@ -210,6 +226,9 @@ Features - teamspeak2 TeamSpeak2 server statistics. + - ted + Plugin to read values from `The Energy Detective' (TED). + - thermal Linux ACPI thermal zone information. @@ -424,6 +443,11 @@ Prerequisites For querying iptables counters. + * 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 + libjvm” below. + * libmysqlclient (optional) Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin. @@ -497,6 +521,9 @@ Prerequisites * libxmms (optional) + * libyajl (optional) + Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `couchdb' plugin. + Configuring / Compiling / Installing ------------------------------------ @@ -522,6 +549,42 @@ Configuring / Compiling / Installing prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when creating packages for collectd. +Configuring with libjvm +----------------------- + + To determine the location of the required files of a Java installation is not + an easy task, because the locations vary with your kernel (Linux, SunOS, …) + and with your architecture (x86, SPARC, …) and there is no ‘java-config’ + script we could use. Configuration of the JVM library is therefore a bit + tricky. + + The easiest way to use the `--with-java=$JAVA_HOME' option, where + `$JAVA_HOME' is usually something like: + /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14 + + The configure script will then use find(1) to look for the following files: + + - jni.h + - jni_md.h + - libjvm.so + + If found, appropriate CPP-flags and LD-flags are set and the following + library checks succeed. + + If this doesn't work for you, you have the possibility to specify CPP-flags, + C-flags and LD-flags for the ‘Java’ plugin by hand, using the following three + (environment) variables: + + - JAVA_CPPFLAGS + - JAVA_CFLAGS + - JAVA_LDFLAGS + + For example (shortened for demonstration purposes): + + ./configure JAVA_CPPFLAGS="-I$JAVA_HOME/include -I$JAVA_HOME/include/linux" + + Adding "-ljvm" to the JAVA_LDFLAGS is done automatically, you don't have to + do that. Crosscompiling --------------