Merge branch 'collectd-4.10' into collectd-5.0

[collectd.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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+++ b/README
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ 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.
 
@@ -235,6 +239,10 @@ 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.
 
@@ -311,6 +319,10 @@ Features
   * Output can be written or sent to various destinations by the following
     plugins:
 
+    - amqp
+      Sends JSON-encoded data to an Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
+      server, such as RabbitMQ.
+
     - csv
       Write to comma separated values (CSV) files. This needs lots of
       diskspace but is extremely portable and can be analysed with almost
@@ -351,6 +363,9 @@ Features
       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:
 
@@ -430,6 +445,10 @@ 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
@@ -507,6 +526,10 @@ 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.
@@ -553,8 +576,10 @@ 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.
@@ -589,6 +614,9 @@ 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).
@@ -604,9 +632,14 @@ 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”)
+    Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
+    <http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c/>
+
   * librouteros (optional)
     Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'.
     <http://verplant.org/librouteros/>