1 collectd (4.2.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
3 Prior to this version any plugin that has dependencies other than libc6 got
4 its own binary package. As the number of such packages was getting quite big
5 they have been merged into the "collectd" binary package and all plugin
6 dependencies were added as recommendations. See
7 /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/README.Debian.plugins for details.
9 -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org> Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:38:21 +0100
11 collectd (4.0.2-1) experimental; urgency=low
13 This version introduces significant changes to the layout of the RRD files
14 created by collectd. In order to keep your old data you have to migrate it.
15 This can be done by using /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-3-4.px. This
16 script will output a series of shell commands that should do all the work
17 automatically. However, depending on your setup, a couple of minor changes
18 might be necessary to migrate all of your data. In this case, please file a
19 bug report so that the necessary changes can be added to the script. The
20 script creates the new RRD files in /tmp/collectd-4/ which can be moved to
21 /var/lib/collectd/rrd/ if everything went right.
23 Thus, the migration can be done like this (you might want to backup your
24 data before):
26 /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-3-4.px | bash
27 rm -rf /var/lib/collectd
28 mkdir /var/lib/collectd
29 mv /tmp/collectd-4 /var/lib/collectd/rrd
31 Thanks to the new plugin infrastructure, the functionality to write RRD and
32 CSV files and the logging and networking facilities could be removed from
33 collectd's core and put into separate plugins, allowing more flexible
34 configurations. To get the behavior of collectd 3.x you have to enable the
35 "rrdtool" and "syslog" plugins (enabled by default) and enable and configure
36 the network plugin. See collectd.conf(5) for details.
38 This also means that a single configuration file is sufficient and there are
39 no longer any different modes that need to be configured. The init script
40 does no longer start one collectd process for each config file found in
41 /etc/collectd/ but only for collectd.conf.
43 Additionally, the syntax of the configuration file has changed slightly. All
44 strings need to be surrounded by double quotes. See collectd.conf(5) for
45 details.
47 Please note that there is no longer the need to load any plugins on the
48 server side just to be able to save values submitted by clients. All
49 required information are automatically loaded by collectd. You only need to
50 load plugins which are supposed to collect data locally.
52 See also: http://collectd.org/migrate-v3-v4.shtml
54 -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:36:58 +0200