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- serial
RX and TX of serial interfaces. Linux only; needs root privileges.
- 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
- snmp
Read values from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled
network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring
Sends data to Riemann, a stream processing and monitoring system.
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
Sends data to Riemann, a stream processing and monitoring system.
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
- plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
+ plugins keep us informed about what's going on:
- logfile
Writes logmessages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR.
- logfile
Writes logmessages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR.
Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
+ * libmnl (optional)
+ Used by the `netlink' plugin.
+ <http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/>
+
* 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
* 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
Required for the “netapp” plugin.
This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp.
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.
- <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2>
-
* libnetsnmp (optional)
For the `snmp' plugin.
<http://www.net-snmp.org/>
* libnetsnmp (optional)
For the `snmp' plugin.
<http://www.net-snmp.org/>
To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin.
<http://www.lm-sensors.org/>
To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin.
<http://www.lm-sensors.org/>
+ * 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.
* libstatgrab (optional)
Used by various plugins to collect statistics on systems other than Linux
and/or Solaris.