X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=ca86c84da4692b4d5307ae5ed284b7f0bd64eed5;hp=ade6b9c77a60bb032384229d102e93f94f64c2e6;hb=2d176c650d9d6e4cd45d2add7977016c82dd8b55;hpb=38176b313b5aaa94ba2b922c2c5fd18c892a92f9 diff --git a/README b/README index ade6b9c7..ca86c84d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ Features hugepages can be found here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt. + - 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 +245,7 @@ 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 +258,7 @@ 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 @@ -289,13 +293,20 @@ Features Query data from an Oracle database. - ovs_events - The plugin monitors the link status of OVS connected interfaces, - dispatches the values to collectd and send the notification whenever - the link state change occurs in OVS DB. It requires YAJL library to be - installed. + The plugin monitors the link status of Open vSwitch (OVS) connected + interfaces, dispatches the values to collectd and sends the notification + whenever the link state change occurs in the OVS database. It requires + YAJL library to be installed. + Detailed instructions for installing and setting up Open vSwitch, see + OVS documentation. + + + - ovs_stats + The plugin collects the statistics of OVS connected bridges and + interfaces. It requires YAJL library to be installed. Detailed instructions for installing and setting up Open vSwitch, see OVS documentation. - + - perl The perl plugin implements a Perl-interpreter into collectd. You can @@ -490,6 +501,13 @@ 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 @@ -772,6 +790,13 @@ Prerequisites For querying iptables counters. + * 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. + + * libjvm (optional) Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is used by the `java' plugin to execute Java bytecode. @@ -817,7 +842,11 @@ 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. + + + * libnetsnmpagent (optional) + Required for the 'snmp_agent' plugin. * libnotify (optional) @@ -935,8 +964,8 @@ Prerequisites * libyajl (optional) - Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `ceph', `curl_json', 'ovs_events' - and `log_logstash' plugins. + Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `ceph', `curl_json', 'ovs_events', + 'ovs_stats' and `log_logstash' plugins. * libvarnish (optional)