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- gmond
Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances.
+ - gps
+ Monitor gps related data through gpsd.
+
- grpc
Receive values over the network using the gRPC framework.
Detailed CPU statistics of the “Logical Partitions” virtualization
technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
+ - lua
+ The Lua plugin implements a Lua interpreter into collectd. This
+ makes it possible to write plugins in Lua which are executed by
+ collectd without the need to start a heavy interpreter every interval.
+ See collectd-lua(5) for details.
+
- lvm
Size of “Logical Volumes” (LV) and “Volume Groups” (VG) of Linux'
“Logical Volume Manager” (LVM).
diskspace but is extremely portable and can be analysed with almost
every program that can analyse anything. Even Microsoft's Excel..
+ - lua
+ It's possible to implement write plugins in Lua using the Lua
+ plugin. See collectd-lua(5) for details.
+
- network
Send the data to a remote host to save the data somehow. This is useful
for large setups where the data should be saved by a dedicated machine.
Used by the `network' plugin for encryption and authentication.
<http://www.gnupg.org/>
+ * libgps (optional)
+ Used by the `gps' plugin.
+ <http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gpsd/>
+
* libhal (optional)
If present, the `uuid' plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
<http://hal.freedesktop.org/>
Used by the `openldap' plugin.
<http://www.openldap.org/>
+ * liblua (optional)
+ Used by the `lua' plugin. Currently, Lua 5.1 and later are supported.
+ <https://www.lua.org/>
+
* liblvm2 (optional)
Used by the `lvm' plugin.
<ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/>
<http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/>
* libpython (optional)
- Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, Python 2.3 and later and Python 3
+ Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, Python 2.6 and later and Python 3
are supported.
<http://www.python.org/>