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Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
- - onewire
+ - onewire (EXPERIMENTAL!)
Read onewire sensors using the owcapu library of the owfs project.
+ Please read in collectd.conf(5) why this plugin is experimental.
- perl
The perl plugin implements a Perl-interpreter into collectd. You can
disable all plugins whose requirements cannot be fulfilled (any other plugin
will be enabled). To enable a plugin, install missing dependencies (see
section `Prerequisites' above) and rerun `configure'. If you specify the
- `--enable-<plugin>' configure option, you can force the plugin to be built.
- This will most likely fail though unless you're working in a very unusual
- setup and you really know what you're doing.
+ `--enable-<plugin>' configure option, the script will fail if the depen-
+ dencies for the specified plugin are not met. If you specify the
+ `--disable-<plugin>' configure option, the plugin will not be built. Both
+ options are meant for package maintainers and should not be used in everyday
+ situations.
By default, collectd will be installed into `/opt/collectd'. You can adjust
this setting by specifying the `--prefix' configure option - see INSTALL for
that the compiled binary actually behaves as it should, but since NANs
are likely never passed to the libm you have a good chance to be lucky.
+ Likewise, collectd needs to know the layout of doubles in memory, in order
+ to craft uniform network packets over different architectures. For this, it
+ needs to know how to convert doubles into the memory layout used by x86. The
+ configure script tries to figure this out by compiling and running a few
+ small test programs. This is of course not possible when cross-compiling.
+ You can use the `--with-fp-layout' option to tell the configure script which
+ conversion method to assume. Valid arguments are:
+
+ * `nothing' (12345678 -> 12345678)
+ * `endianflip' (12345678 -> 87654321)
+ * `intswap' (12345678 -> 56781234)
+
Contact
-------
- For questions, bugreports, development information and basically all other
- concerns please send an email to collectd's mailinglist at
+ For questions, bug reports, development information and basically all other
+ concerns please send an email to collectd's mailing list at
<collectd at verplant.org>.
For live discussion and more personal contact visit us in IRC, we're in
Sebastian tokkee Harl <sh at tokkee.org>,
and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').
- Please send bugreports and patches to the mailinglist, see `Contact' above.
+ Please send bug reports and patches to the mailing list, see `Contact'
+ above.