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diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index b7d08c7c..15b6f680 100644
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ By default, this is disabled. As a special exception, if the plugin name is
 either C<perl> or C<python>, the default is changed to enabled in order to keep
 the average user from ever having to deal with this low level linking stuff.
 
+=item B<Interval> I<Seconds>
+
+Sets a plugin-specific interval for collecting metrics. This overrides the
+global B<Interval> setting. If a plugin provides own support for specifying an
+interval, that setting will take precedence.
+
 =back
 
 =item B<Include> I<Path>
@@ -193,12 +199,122 @@ C<Plugin>-Section. Which options exist depends on the plugin used. Some plugins
 require external configuration, too. The C<apache plugin>, for example,
 required C<mod_status> to be configured in the webserver you're going to
 collect data from. These plugins are listed below as well, even if they don't
-require any configuration within collectd's configfile.
+require any configuration within collectd's configuration file.
 
 A list of all plugins and a short summary for each plugin can be found in the
 F<README> file shipped with the sourcecode and hopefully binary packets as
 well.
 
+=head2 Plugin C<aggregation>
+
+The I<Aggregation plugin> makes it possible to aggregate several values into
+one using aggregation functions such as I<sum>, I<average>, I<min> and I<max>.
+This can be put to a wide variety of uses, e.g. average and total CPU
+statistics for your entire fleet.
+
+The grouping is powerful but, as with many powerful tools, may be a bit
+difficult to wrap your head around. The grouping will therefore be
+demonstrated using an example: The average and sum of the CPU usage across
+all CPUs of each host is to be calculated.
+
+To select all the affected values for our example, set C<Plugin cpu> and
+C<Type cpu>. The other values are left unspecified, meaning "all values". The
+I<Host>, I<Plugin>, I<PluginInstance>, I<Type> and I<TypeInstance> options
+work as if they were specified in the C<WHERE> clause of an C<SELECT> SQL
+statement.
+
+  Plugin "cpu"
+  Type "cpu"
+
+Although the I<Host>, I<PluginInstance> (CPU number, i.e. 0, 1, 2, ...)  and
+I<TypeInstance> (idle, user, system, ...) fields are left unspecified in the
+example, the intention is to have a new value for each host / type instance
+pair. This is achieved by "grouping" the values using the C<GroupBy> option.
+It can be specified multiple times to group by more than one field.
+
+  GroupBy "Host"
+  GroupBy "TypeInstance"
+
+We do neither specify nor group by I<plugin instance> (the CPU number), so all
+metrics that differ in the CPU number only will be aggregated. Each
+aggregation needs I<at least one> such field, otherwise no aggregation would
+take place.
+
+The full example configuration looks like this:
+
+ <Plugin "aggregation">
+   <Aggregation>
+     Plugin "cpu"
+     Type "cpu"
+     
+     GroupBy "Host"
+     GroupBy "TypeInstance"
+     
+     CalculateSum true
+     CalculateAverage true
+   </Aggregation>
+ </Plugin>
+
+There are a couple of limitations you should be aware of:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item
+
+The I<Type> cannot be left unspecified, because it is not reasonable to add
+apples to oranges. Also, the internal lookup structure won't work if you try
+to group by type.
+
+=item
+
+There must be at least one unspecified, ungrouped field. Otherwise nothing
+will be aggregated.
+
+=back
+
+As you can see in the example above, each aggregation has its own
+B<Aggregation> block. You can have multiple aggregation blocks and aggregation
+blocks may match the same values, i.e. one value list can update multiple
+aggregations. The following options are valid inside B<Aggregation> blocks:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Host> I<Host>
+
+=item B<Plugin> I<Plugin>
+
+=item B<PluginInstance> I<PluginInstance>
+
+=item B<Type> I<Type>
+
+=item B<TypeInstance> I<TypeInstance>
+
+Selects the value lists to be added to this aggregation. B<Type> must be a
+valid data set name, see L<types.db(5)> for details.
+
+=item B<GroupBy> B<Host>|B<Plugin>|B<PluginInstance>|B<TypeInstance>
+
+Group valued by the specified field. The B<GroupBy> option may be repeated to
+group by multiple fields.
+
+=item B<CalculateNum> B<true>|B<false>
+
+=item B<CalculateSum> B<true>|B<false>
+
+=item B<CalculateAverage> B<true>|B<false>
+
+=item B<CalculateMinimum> B<true>|B<false>
+
+=item B<CalculateMaximum> B<true>|B<false>
+
+=item B<CalculateStddev> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Boolean options for enabling calculation of the number of value lists, their
+sum, average, minimum, maximum andE<nbsp>/ or standard deviation. All options
+are disabled by default.
+
+=back
+
 =head2 Plugin C<amqp>
 
 The I<AMQMP plugin> can be used to communicate with other instances of
@@ -3604,6 +3720,11 @@ used, the parameter expands to "localhost".
 
 The name of the database of the current connection.
 
+=item I<instance>
+
+The name of the database plugin instance. See the B<Instance> option of the
+database specification below for details.
+
 =item I<username>
 
 The username used to connect to the database.
@@ -3762,6 +3883,13 @@ Specify the password to be used when connecting to the server.
 Specify whether to use an SSL connection when contacting the server. The
 following modes are supported:
 
+=item B<Instance> I<name>
+
+Specify the plugin instance name that should be used instead of the database
+name (which is the default, if this option has not been specified). This
+allows to query multiple databases of the same name on the same host (e.g.
+when running multiple database server versions in parallel).
+
 =over 4
 
 =item I<disable>
@@ -4183,6 +4311,50 @@ Enables or disables the creation of RRD files. If the daemon is not running
 locally, or B<DataDir> is set to a relative path, this will not work as
 expected. Default is B<true>.
 
+=item B<StepSize> I<Seconds>
+
+B<Force> the stepsize of newly created RRD-files. Ideally (and per default)
+this setting is unset and the stepsize is set to the interval in which the data
+is collected. Do not use this option unless you absolutely have to for some
+reason. Setting this option may cause problems with the C<snmp plugin>, the
+C<exec plugin> or when the daemon is set up to receive data from other hosts.
+
+=item B<HeartBeat> I<Seconds>
+
+B<Force> the heartbeat of newly created RRD-files. This setting should be unset
+in which case the heartbeat is set to twice the B<StepSize> which should equal
+the interval in which data is collected. Do not set this option unless you have
+a very good reason to do so.
+
+=item B<RRARows> I<NumRows>
+
+The C<rrdtool plugin> calculates the number of PDPs per CDP based on the
+B<StepSize>, this setting and a timespan. This plugin creates RRD-files with
+three times five RRAs, i. e. five RRAs with the CFs B<MIN>, B<AVERAGE>, and
+B<MAX>. The five RRAs are optimized for graphs covering one hour, one day, one
+week, one month, and one year.
+
+So for each timespan, it calculates how many PDPs need to be consolidated into
+one CDP by calculating:
+  number of PDPs = timespan / (stepsize * rrarows)
+
+Bottom line is, set this no smaller than the width of you graphs in pixels. The
+default is 1200.
+
+=item B<RRATimespan> I<Seconds>
+
+Adds an RRA-timespan, given in seconds. Use this option multiple times to have
+more then one RRA. If this option is never used, the built-in default of (3600,
+86400, 604800, 2678400, 31622400) is used.
+
+For more information on how RRA-sizes are calculated see B<RRARows> above.
+
+=item B<XFF> I<Factor>
+
+Set the "XFiles Factor". The default is 0.1. If unsure, don't set this option.
+I<Factor> must be in the range C<[0.0-1.0)>, i.e. between zero (inclusive) and
+one (exclusive).
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Plugin C<rrdtool>
@@ -4240,6 +4412,8 @@ For more information on how RRA-sizes are calculated see B<RRARows> above.
 =item B<XFF> I<Factor>
 
 Set the "XFiles Factor". The default is 0.1. If unsure, don't set this option.
+I<Factor> must be in the range C<[0.0-1.0)>, i.e. between zero (inclusive) and
+one (exclusive).
 
 =item B<CacheFlush> I<Seconds>