X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fcollectd.conf.pod;h=f4bd32ae70366c8b9e166e8e6db28aa94583859c;hb=01bb122fca4bd5c767b795f9cff364d01f0573c3;hp=3c599ebdd066138b49d184911c4b8872788c2503;hpb=27aeac9988dde1d53e5df697ce0e1b8a951d091a;p=collectd.git diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod index 3c599ebd..f4bd32ae 100644 --- a/src/collectd.conf.pod +++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod @@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ Options inside a B block can override default settings and influence the way plugins are loaded, e.g.: - Globals true Interval 60 @@ -479,7 +478,7 @@ are disabled by default. =head2 Plugin C -The I can be used to communicate with other instances of +The I can be used to communicate with other instances of I or third party applications using an AMQP message broker. Values are sent to or received from the broker, which handles routing, queueing and possibly filtering or messages. @@ -503,7 +502,7 @@ possibly filtering or messages. # GraphiteSeparateInstances false # GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS false - + # Receive values from an AMQP broker Host "localhost" @@ -1117,7 +1116,7 @@ is set to B, B blocks are optional. =head2 Plugin C The B collects values from JSON data to be parsed by -B (L) retrieved via +B (L) retrieved via either B (L) or read directly from a unix socket. The former can be used, for example, to collect values from CouchDB documents (which are stored JSON notation), and the @@ -2003,6 +2002,23 @@ do that: By setting B to I the effect of B is inverted: All selected interfaces are ignored and all other interfaces are collected. +It is possible to use regular expressions to match interface names, if the +name is surrounded by I and collectd was compiled with support for +regexps. This is useful if there's a need to collect (or ignore) data +for a group of interfaces that are similarly named, without the need to +explicitly list all of them (especially useful if the list is dynamic). +Example: + + Interface "lo" + Interface "/^veth/" + Interface "/^tun[0-9]+/" + IgnoreSelected "true" + +This will ignore the loopback interface, all interfaces with names starting +with I and all interfaces with names starting with I followed by +at least one digit. + + =back =head2 Plugin C @@ -2043,9 +2059,13 @@ a notification is sent. =item B I I [I [I]] -Select the rules to count. If only I
and I are given, this plugin -will collect the counters of all rules which have a comment-match. The comment -is then used as type-instance. +=item B I
I [I [I]] + +Select the iptables/ip6tables filter rules to count packets and bytes from. + +If only I
and I are given, this plugin will collect the counters +of all rules which have a comment-match. The comment is then used as +type-instance. If I or I is given, only the rule with the matching comment or the Ith rule will be collected. Again, the comment (or the number) will be @@ -4515,6 +4535,13 @@ activating this option. The draw-back is, that data covering the specified amount of time will be lost, for example, if a single statement within the transaction fails or if the database server crashes. +=item B I + +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). + =item B I Specify the hostname or IP of the PostgreSQL server to connect to. If the @@ -4545,13 +4572,6 @@ 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 I - -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 @@ -4941,7 +4961,7 @@ that numerical port numbers must be given as a string, too. Use I to authenticate when connecting to I. -=item B I +=item B I The B option set the socket timeout for node response. Since the Redis read function is blocking, you should keep this value as low as possible. Keep @@ -6225,7 +6245,7 @@ Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to C. Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to C<27017>. -=item B I +=item B I Set the timeout for each operation on I to I milliseconds. Setting this option to zero means no timeout, which is the default. @@ -6361,7 +6381,7 @@ The B option is the TCP port on which the Redis instance accepts connections. Either a service name of a port number may be given. Please note that numerical port numbers must be given as a string, too. -=item B I +=item B I The B option sets the socket connection timeout, in milliseconds. @@ -6424,7 +6444,7 @@ C. =item B B|B -If set the B, append the name of the I (DS) to the +If set to B, append the name of the I (DS) to the "service", i.e. the field that, together with the "host" field, uniquely identifies a metric in I. If set to B (the default), this is only done when there is more than one DS.