X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=bcedb62e0a387c63370a07f8a4a302c90dceb670;hp=104bc4df17c525045b2767bccf033d83bde5be49;hb=633c3966f770e4d46651a2fe219a18d8a9907a9f;hpb=580e0c479434434cef3661e02fb6af489714db5c diff --git a/README b/README index 104bc4df..bcedb62e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Features Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and voltage sensors. + - aquaero + Various sensors in the Aquaero 5 watercooling board made by Aquacomputer. + - ascent Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'. @@ -37,6 +40,9 @@ Features Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel' interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later. + - cgroups + CPU accounting information for process groups under Linux. + - conntrack Number of nf_conntrack entries. @@ -135,6 +141,10 @@ Features - libvirt CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines. + - lvm + Size of “Logical Volumes” (LV) and “Volume Groups” (VG) of Linux' + “Logical Volume Manager” (LVM). + - madwifi Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and interfaces that use the Atheros chipset and the MadWifi driver. @@ -273,6 +283,11 @@ Features - serial RX and TX of serial interfaces. Linux only; needs root privileges. + - sigrok + Uses libsigrok as a backend, allowing any sigrok-supported device + to have its measurements fed to collectd. This includes multimeters, + sound level meters, thermometers, and much more. + - snmp Read values from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring @@ -380,13 +395,18 @@ Features done. - write_graphite - Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite. + Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite using TCP or UDP. It + can be configured to avoid logging send errors (especially useful when + using UDP). - 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_kafka + Sends data to Apache Kafka, a distributed queue. + - write_mongodb Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database. @@ -548,10 +568,18 @@ Prerequisites * A POSIX-threads (pthread) implementation. Since gathering some statistics is slow (network connections, slow devices, - etc) the collectd is parallelized. The POSIX threads interface is being + etc) collectd is parallelized. The POSIX threads interface is being used and should be found in various implementations for hopefully all platforms. + * aerotools-ng (optional) + Used by the `aquaero' plugin. Currently, the `libaquaero5' library, which + is used by the `aerotools-ng' toolkit, is not compiled as a shared object + nor does it feature an installation routine. Therefore, you need to point + collectd's configure script at the source directory of the `aerotools-ng' + project. + + * CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework (optional) For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in particular. @@ -609,6 +637,10 @@ Prerequisites Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon. + * libmnl (optional) + Used by the `netlink' plugin. + + * libmodbus (optional) 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 @@ -623,10 +655,6 @@ Prerequisites Required for the “netapp” plugin. This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp. - * libnetlink (optional) - Used, obviously, for the `netlink' plugin. - - * libnetsnmp (optional) For the `snmp' plugin. @@ -637,7 +665,7 @@ Prerequisites * liboping (optional) Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets. - + * libowcapi (optional) Used by the `onewire' plugin to read values from onewire sensors (or the @@ -674,9 +702,13 @@ Prerequisites Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ. + * librdkafka (optional; also called “rdkafka”) + Used by the Kafka plugin for producing. + + * librouteros (optional) Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'. - + * librrd (optional) Used by the `rrdtool' and `rrdcached' plugins. The latter requires RRDtool @@ -692,6 +724,11 @@ Prerequisites To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin. + * libsigrok (optional) + Used by the sigrok plugin. In addition, libsigrok depends on glib, + libzip, and optionally (depending on which drivers are enabled) on + libusb, libftdi and libudev. + * libstatgrab (optional) Used by various plugins to collect statistics on systems other than Linux and/or Solaris. @@ -827,7 +864,7 @@ Contact For questions, bug reports, development information and basically all other concerns please send an email to collectd's mailing list at - . + . For live discussion and more personal contact visit us in IRC, we're in channel #collectd on freenode. @@ -836,7 +873,7 @@ Contact Author ------ - Florian octo Forster , + Florian octo Forster , Sebastian tokkee Harl , and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').