Bump version to 5.1.3; Update ChangeLog.

[collectd.git] / README

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@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ Features
     - entropy
       Amount of entropy available to the system.
 
+    - ethstat
+      Network interface card statistics.
+
     - exec
       Values gathered by a custom program or script.
       See collectd-exec(5).
@@ -125,6 +128,10 @@ Features
     - load
       System load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
 
+    - lpar
+      Detailed CPU statistics of the “Logical Partitions” virtualization
+      technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
+
     - libvirt
       CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
 
@@ -136,6 +143,10 @@ Features
       Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
       using mbmon(1).
 
+    - md
+      Linux software-RAID device information (number of active, failed, spare
+      and missing disks).
+
     - memcachec
       Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached).
 
@@ -188,6 +199,9 @@ Features
       Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
       temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
 
+    - numa
+      Information about Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA).
+
     - olsrd
       Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing”
       daemon.
@@ -235,6 +249,10 @@ Features
       collectd without the need to start a heavy interpreter every interval.
       See collectd-python(5) for details.
 
+    - redis
+      The redis plugin gathers information from a redis server, including:
+      uptime, used memory, total connections etc.
+
     - routeros
       Query interface and wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
 
@@ -350,11 +368,17 @@ Features
       needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
       done.
 
+    - write_graphite
+      Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite.
+
     - write_http
       Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
       requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
       Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
 
+    - write_redis
+      Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server.
+
   * Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
     plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
 
@@ -434,6 +458,10 @@ Features
 
   * Miscellaneous plugins:
 
+    - threshold
+      Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if
+      values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
+
     - uuid
       Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups
       where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going
@@ -511,6 +539,10 @@ Prerequisites
   * libclntsh (optional)
     Used by the `oracle' plugin.
 
+  * libcredis (optional)
+    Used by the redis plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version
+    or higher. <http://code.google.com/p/credis/>
+
   * libcurl (optional)
     If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl', `nginx', or `write_http'
     plugin.
@@ -557,8 +589,10 @@ Prerequisites
     <http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
 
   * libmodbus (optional)
-    Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices.
-    <https://launchpad.net/libmodbus>
+    Used by the “modbus” plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The
+    “modbus” plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent
+    API changes other versions may or may not compile cleanly.
+    <http://www.libmodbus.org/>
 
   * libmysqlclient (optional)
     Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin.
@@ -593,6 +627,9 @@ Prerequisites
     Used to capture packets by the `dns' plugin.
     <http://www.tcpdump.org/>
 
+  * libperfstat (optional)
+    Used by various plugins to gather statistics under AIX.
+
   * libperl (optional)
     Obviously used by the `perl' plugin. The library has to be compiled with
     ithread support (introduced in Perl 5.6.0).
@@ -608,7 +645,8 @@ Prerequisites
     <http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/>
 
   * libpython (optional)
-    Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported.
+    Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, Python 2.3 and later and Python 3
+    are supported.
     <http://www.python.org/>
 
   * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)