=over 4
+=item B<Plugin> I<Plugin>
+
+Use I<Plugin> as the plugin name when submitting values.
+Defaults to B<filecount>.
+
=item B<Instance> I<Instance>
-Sets the plugin instance to I<Instance>. That instance name must be unique, but
-it's your responsibility, the plugin doesn't check for that. If not given, the
-instance is set to the directory name with all slashes replaced by underscores
-and all leading underscores removed.
+Sets the plugin instance to I<Instance>. If not given, the instance is set to
+the directory name with all slashes replaced by underscores and all leading
+underscores removed. Empty value is allowed.
=item B<Name> I<Pattern>
"Hidden" files and directories are those, whose name begins with a dot.
Defaults to I<false>, i.e. by default hidden files and directories are ignored.
+=item B<FilesSizeType> I<Type>
+
+Sets the type used to dispatch files combined size. Empty value ("") disables
+reporting. Defaults to B<bytes>.
+
+=item B<FilesCountType> I<Type>
+
+Sets the type used to dispatch number of files. Empty value ("") disables
+reporting. Defaults to B<files>.
+
+=item B<TypeInstance> I<Instance>
+
+Sets the I<type instance> used to dispatch values. Defaults to an empty string
+(no plugin instance).
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<GenericJMX>
mcelog server is running. When the server is running, the plugin will tail the
specified logfile to retrieve machine check exception information and send a
notification with the details from the logfile. The plugin will use the mcelog
-client protocol to retrieve memory related machine check exceptions.
+client protocol to retrieve memory related machine check exceptions. Note that
+for memory exceptions, notifications are only sent when there is a change in
+the number of corrected/uncorrected memory errors.
-=over 4
+=head3 The Memory block
+
+Note: these options cannot be used in conjunction with the logfile options, they are mutually
+exclusive.
+
+=over 3
=item B<McelogClientSocket> I<Path>
Connect to the mcelog client socket using the UNIX domain socket at I<Path>.
Defaults to B<"/var/run/mcelog-client">.
+=item B<PersistentNotification> B<true>|B<false>
+Override default configuration to only send notifications when sent when there
+is a change in the number of corrected/uncorrected memory errors. When set to
+true notifications will be sent for every read cycle. Default is false. Does
+not affect the stats being dispatched.
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
=item B<McelogLogfile> I<Path>
-The mcelog file to parse. Defaults to B<"/var/log/mcelog">.
+The mcelog file to parse. Defaults to B<"/var/log/mcelog">. Note: this option
+cannot be used in conjunction with the memory block options, they are mutually
+exclusive.
=back
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<nfs>
+
+The I<nfs plugin> collects information about the usage of the Network File
+System (NFS). It counts the number of procedure calls for each procedure,
+grouped by version and whether the system runs as server or client.
+
+It is possibly to omit metrics for a specific NFS version by setting one or
+more of the following options to B<false> (all of them default to B<true>).
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<ReportV2> B<true>|B<false>
+
+=item B<ReportV3> B<true>|B<false>
+
+=item B<ReportV4> B<true>|B<false>
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<nginx>
This plugin collects the number of connections and requests handled by the
When the C<rrdtool> plugin uses a cache (by setting B<CacheTimeout>, see below)
it writes all values for a certain RRD-file if the oldest value is older than
-(or equal to) the number of seconds specified. If some RRD-file is not updated
+(or equal to) the number of seconds specified by B<CacheTimeout>.
+That check happens on new values arriwal. If some RRD-file is not updated
anymore for some reason (the computer was shut down, the network is broken,
-etc.) some values may still be in the cache. If B<CacheFlush> is set, then the
-entire cache is searched for entries older than B<CacheTimeout> seconds and
-written to disk every I<Seconds> seconds. Since this is kind of expensive and
-does nothing under normal circumstances, this value should not be too small.
-900 seconds might be a good value, though setting this to 7200 seconds doesn't
-normally do much harm either.
+etc.) some values may still be in the cache. If B<CacheFlush> is set, then
+every I<Seconds> seconds the entire cache is searched for entries older than
+B<CacheTimeout> + B<RandomTimeout> seconds. The entries found are written to
+disk. Since scanning the entire cache is kind of expensive and does nothing
+under normal circumstances, this value should not be too small. 900 seconds
+might be a good value, though setting this to 7200 seconds doesn't normally
+do much harm either.
+
+Defaults to 10x B<CacheTimeout>.
+B<CacheFlush> must be larger than or equal to B<CacheTimeout>, otherwise the
+above default is used.
=item B<CacheTimeout> I<Seconds>