X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fcollectd.pod;h=8ea47ec81496716699d504e0115fdb6986cacb4c;hb=4371ef7f98f6f51ea3df34d5e26e175d6b44a328;hp=2f7b9f707439c795fcf85acfaede29ec39821a2e;hpb=443afcad2cbacaca9bb1fd7d9ea790cbeb6ff015;p=collectd.git diff --git a/src/collectd.pod b/src/collectd.pod index 2f7b9f70..8ea47ec8 100644 --- a/src/collectd.pod +++ b/src/collectd.pod @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ There are two big groups of plugins, B and B plugins: =over 4 -=item +=item * Input plugins are queried periodically. They somehow acquire the current value of whatever they where designed to work with and submit these values back to @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ the daemon, i. e. they "dispatch" the values. As an example, the C reads the current cpu-counters of time spent in the various modes (user, system, nice, ...) and dispatches these counters to the daemon. -=item +=item * Output plugins get the dispatched values from the daemon and does something with them. Common applications are writing to RRD-files, CSV-files or sending