Merge pull request #2722 from elfiesmelfie/increase_buffer

[collectd.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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+++ b/README
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ Features
       Collect DPDK interface statistics.
       See docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md for detailed build instructions.
 
+      This plugin should be compiled with compiler defenses enabled, for
+      example -fstack-protector.
+
     - drbd
       Collect individual drbd resource statistics.
 
@@ -140,6 +143,14 @@ Features
       hugepages can be found here:
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.
 
+      This plugin should be compiled with compiler defenses enabled, for
+      example -fstack-protector.
+
+    - intel_pmu
+      The intel_pmu plugin reads performance counters provided by the Linux
+      kernel perf interface. The plugin uses jevents library to resolve named
+      events to perf events and access perf interface.
+
     - intel_rdt
       The intel_rdt plugin collects information provided by monitoring features
       of Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel(R) RDT) like Cache Monitoring
@@ -240,7 +251,7 @@ Features
 
     - netapp
       Plugin to query performance values from a NetApp storage system using the
-      “Manage ONTAP” SDK provided by NetApp.
+      “Manage ONTAP” SDK provided by NetApp.
 
     - netlink
       Very detailed Linux network interface and routing statistics. You can get
@@ -253,8 +264,7 @@ Features
       plugin of choice for that.
 
     - nfs
-      NFS Procedures: Which NFS command were called how often. Only NFSv2 and
-      NFSv3 right now.
+      NFS Procedures: Which NFS command were called how often.
 
     - nginx
       Collects statistics from `nginx' (speak: engine X), a HTTP and mail
@@ -497,6 +507,13 @@ Features
       updates to the files and write a bunch of updates at once, which lessens
       system load a lot.
 
+    - snmp_agent
+      Receives and handles queries from SNMP master agent and returns the data
+      collected by read plugins. Handles requests only for OIDs specified in
+      configuration file. To handle SNMP queries the plugin gets data from
+      collectd and translates requested values from collectd's internal format
+      to SNMP format.
+
     - unixsock
       One can query the values from the unixsock plugin whenever they're
       needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
@@ -779,6 +796,13 @@ Prerequisites
     For querying iptables counters.
     <http://netfilter.org/>
 
+  * libjevents (optional)
+    The jevents library is used by the `intel_pmu' plugin to access the Linux
+    kernel perf interface.
+    Note: the library should be build with -fPIC flag to be linked with
+    intel_pmu shared object correctly.
+    <https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools>
+
   * libjvm (optional)
     Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
     used by the `java' plugin to execute Java bytecode.
@@ -824,7 +848,11 @@ Prerequisites
     This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp.
 
   * libnetsnmp (optional)
-    For the `snmp' plugin.
+    For the `snmp' and 'snmp_agent' plugins.
+    <http://www.net-snmp.org/>
+
+  * libnetsnmpagent (optional)
+    Required for the 'snmp_agent' plugin.
     <http://www.net-snmp.org/>
 
   * libnotify (optional)