X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=f41e720e76ea7e060ee99caaf42c987f4c2f4d0e;hb=148e8732e45435a051df1c3673cad0d5dc77492f;hp=904e7c73a7692ed327a05418f211595e30d73cc9;hpb=250dc17bfb3c5488b789347f1f570913701d31ca;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index 904e7c73..f41e720e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ Features Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation, temperature, etc. See upsd(8). + - onewire + Read onewire sensors using the owcapu library of the owfs project. + - perl The perl plugin implements a Perl-interpreter into collectd. You can write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this @@ -141,6 +144,10 @@ 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. @@ -230,6 +237,16 @@ 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). @@ -315,9 +332,16 @@ 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', `ascent', or `nginx' plugin. + * libesmtp (optional) + For the `notify_email' plugin. + * libhal (optional) If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL. @@ -333,10 +357,17 @@ 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. + * libowcapi (optional) + Used by the `onewire' plugin to read values from onewire sensors (or the + owserver(1) daemon). + * libpcap (optional) Used to capture packets by the `dns' plugin. @@ -344,38 +375,37 @@ 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. This is needed for the `ascent' and `libvirt' plugins. + * libxmms (optional) + Configuring / Compiling / Installing ------------------------------------