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exactly `collectd's job. They may or may not require in-depth knowledge of RRD
files and/or `collectd's inner workings. Use at your own risk.
-PerlLib/
---------
- Perl modules to be used in conjunction with collectd. See the perldoc
-documentation of the .pm-files to find out what they're good for.
-
add_rra.sh
----------
Before version 3.9.0 collectd used to create a different set of RRAs. The
interesting. Please note that no sanity- checking whatsoever is performed. You
can seriously fuck up your RRD files if you don't know what you're doing.
+collectd-network.py
+-------------------
+ This Python module by Adrian Perez implements the collectd network protocol
+in pure Python. It currently supports to receive data and notifications from
+collectd.
+
+collectd-unixsock.py
+--------------------
+ This Python module by Clay Loveless provides an interface to collect's
+unixsock plugin.
+
collectd2html.pl
----------------
- This script by Vincent Stehlé will search for RRD files in
+ This script by Vincent Stehlé will search for RRD files in
`/var/lib/collectd/' and generate an HTML file and a directory containing
several PNG files which are graphs of the RRD files found.
datadir: "/var/lib/collectd/rrd/"
libdir: "/usr/lib/collectd/"
+exec-munin.px
+-------------
+ Script to be used with the exec-plugin (see collectd-exec(5) for details)
+which executes munin plugins, parses the output and translates it to a format
+the exec-plugin understands. The features are limited - changing the munin
+plugins to use the output format understood by the exec-plugin is recommended.
+See the embedded POD documentation for more details:
+ $ perldoc contrib/exec-munin.px
+
+exec-smartctl
+-------------
+ Sample script for the exec plugin. Please refer to the documentation in the
+file - you will have to adapt it to your needs anyway.
+
extractDS.px
------------
Creates a new RRD-file with only one data-source (DS) of the source-RRD-
Init-script and Spec-file that can be used when creating RPM-packages for
Fedora.
+GenericJMX.conf
+---------------
+ Example configuration file for the ‘GenericJMX’ Java plugin. Please read the
+documentation at the beginning of the file for more details.
+
migrate-3-4.px
--------------
Migration-script to ease the switch from version 3 to version 4. Many
prints a bash-script to STDOUT which should do most of the work for you. You
may still need to do some things by hand, read `README.migration' for more
details.
+
+redhat/
+-------
+ Spec-file and affiliated files to build an RedHat RPM package of collectd.
+
+snmp-data.conf
+--------------
+ Sample configuration for the SNMP plugin. This config includes a few standard
+<Data ..> definitions that you can include in your own config using the
+`Include' statement (available since version 4.2.0). The config includes some
+data that is defined in the IF-MIB, e. g. octet or packet counters, UPS-MIB and
+whatever people have send in. If you have some more definitions please send
+them in, so others can profit from it.
+
+solaris-smf
+-----------
+ Manifest file for the Solaris SMF system and detailed information on how to
+register collectd as a service with this system.
+
+collectd.service
+----------------
+ Service file for systemd. Please ship this file as
+ /lib/systemd/system/collectd.service in any linux package of collectd.