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- filecount
Count the number of files in directories.
+ - fscache
+ Linux file-system based caching framework statistics.
+
- gmond
Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances.
Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
+ - memcachec
+ Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached).
+
- memcached
Statistics of the memcached distributed caching system.
<http://www.danga.com/memcached/>
- swap
Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
+ - table
+ Parse table-like structured files.
+
- tail
Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
values.
- thermal
Linux ACPI thermal zone information.
+ - uptime
+ System uptime statistics.
+
- users
Users currently logged in.
For the `notify_email' plugin.
<http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/>
+ * libganglia (optional)
+ Used by the `gmond' plugin to process data received from Ganglia.
+
+ * libgcrypt (optional)
+ Used by the `network' plugin for encryption and authentication.
+
* libhal (optional)
If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
<http://hal.freedesktop.org/>
used by the Java plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with
libjvm” below.
+ * libmemcached (optional)
+ Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
+
* libmysqlclient (optional)
Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin.
<http://dev.mysql.com/>
For the `notify_desktop' plugin.
<http://www.galago-project.org/>
- * liboping (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
- can be used)
+ * liboping (optional)
Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets.
<http://verplant.org/liboping/>
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, 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.
+ dencies for the specified plugin are not met. In that case you can force the
+ plugin to be built using the `--enable-<plugin>=force' configure option.
+ This will most likely fail though unless you're working in a very unusual
+ setup and you really know what you're doing. If you specify the
+ `--disable-<plugin>' configure option, the plugin will not be built. If you
+ specify the `--enable-all-plugins' or `--disable-all-plugins' configure
+ options, all plugins will be enabled or disabled respectively by default.
+ Explicitly enabling or disabling a plugin overwrites the default for the
+ specified plugin. These 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