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Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
+ - conntrack
+ Number of nf_conntrack entries.
+
- cpu
CPU utilization: Time spent in the system, user, nice, idle, and related
states.
- filecount
Count the number of files in directories.
+ - fscache
+ Linux file-system based caching framework statistics.
+
+ - gmond
+ Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances.
+
- hddtemp
Harddisk temperatures using hddtempd.
- irq
IRQ counters: Frequency in which certain interrupts occur.
+ - java
+ Integrates a `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM) to execute plugins in Java
+ bytecode. See “Configuring with libjvm” below.
+
- load
System load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
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/>
- processes
Process counts: Number of running, sleeping, zombie, ... processes.
+ - protocols
+ Counts various aspects of network protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, etc.
+
- rrdcached
RRDtool caching daemon (RRDcacheD) statistics.
- 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.
- teamspeak2
TeamSpeak2 server statistics.
+ - ted
+ Plugin to read values from `The Energy Detective' (TED).
+
- 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/>
For querying iptables counters.
<http://netfilter.org/>
+ * libjvm (optional)
+ Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
+ 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
prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when creating
packages for collectd.
+Configuring with libjvm
+-----------------------
+
+ To determine the location of the required files of a Java installation is not
+ an easy task, because the locations vary with your kernel (Linux, SunOS, …)
+ and with your architecture (x86, SPARC, …) and there is no ‘java-config’
+ script we could use. Configuration of the JVM library is therefore a bit
+ tricky.
+
+ The easiest way to use the `--with-java=$JAVA_HOME' option, where
+ `$JAVA_HOME' is usually something like:
+ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14
+
+ The configure script will then use find(1) to look for the following files:
+
+ - jni.h
+ - jni_md.h
+ - libjvm.so
+
+ If found, appropriate CPP-flags and LD-flags are set and the following
+ library checks succeed.
+
+ If this doesn't work for you, you have the possibility to specify CPP-flags,
+ C-flags and LD-flags for the ‘Java’ plugin by hand, using the following three
+ (environment) variables:
+
+ - JAVA_CPPFLAGS
+ - JAVA_CFLAGS
+ - JAVA_LDFLAGS
+
+ For example (shortened for demonstration purposes):
+
+ ./configure JAVA_CPPFLAGS="-I$JAVA_HOME/include -I$JAVA_HOME/include/linux"
+
+ Adding "-ljvm" to the JAVA_LDFLAGS is done automatically, you don't have to
+ do that.
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