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<Plugin "tail_csv">
- <Metric "dropped">
+ <Metric "snort-dropped">
Type "percent"
Instance "dropped"
Index 1
</Metric>
- <Instance "snort-eth0">
- Path "/var/log/snort/snort.stats"
+ <File "/var/log/snort/snort.stats">
+ Instance "snort-eth0"
Interval 600
- Collect "dropped"
- </Instance>
+ Collect "snort-dropped"
+ </File>
</Plugin>
The configuration consists of one or more B<Metric> blocks that define an index
=back
-=item E<lt>B<Instance> I<Name>E<gt>
+=item E<lt>B<File> I<Path>E<gt>
-Each B<Instance> block represents on CSV file to read. The block's I<Name>
-will be used as I<plugin instance> when dispatching the values and is used to
-support multiple separate CSV files. There must be at least one I<Instance>
-block but there can be multiple if you have multiple CSV files.
+Each B<File> block represents one CSV file to read. There must be at least one
+I<File> block but there can be multiple if you have multiple CSV files.
=over 4
-=item B<Path> I<Path>
+=item B<Instance> I<PluginInstance>
-Configures the I<Path> to the statistics file to read.
+Sets the I<plugin instance> used when dispatching the values.
=item B<Collect> I<Metric>