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- Some plugins require additional libraries. To prevent you from having to
- install dependencies that you don't actually need those libraries are
- recommendations rather than dependencies. See README.Debian.plugins in the
- "collectd" package for details.
+ install dozens of further packages that you don't actually need, there is no
+ strict dependency on those libraries. Rather, they are listed as recommenda-
+ tions ("collectd" package) or suggestions ("collectd-core" package"). See
+ /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/README.Debian.plugins for details.
+
+- The main components of collectd have been split into two packages:
+
+ * "collectd-core":
+ This package contains the main program file and the plugins but no config-
+ uration. It allows sites to, e.g., provide customizations on top of it
+ without having to modify the "collectd" package. For example, a custom
+ configuration and appropriate dependencies may be provided by some package
+ depending on "collectd-core" and conflicting / replacing / providing
+ "collectd". Ready-to-use sample config files (collectd.conf, filters.conf,
+ thresholds.conf) are available in /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/examples/.
+
+ * "collectd":
+ This package provides a full installation of the daemon, including a
+ configuration. It is meant to be ready to use for simple setups or first
+ steps.
Configuring collectd:
---------------------
"/var/lib/collectd/" and generate a static HTML file and a directory
containing several PNG files which are graphs of the RRD files found.
- This script was intended to be used with version 3 of collectd but still
- seems to be in use by some people. To get it working with version 4, you
- have to call it once for each subdirectory containing RRD files. A sample
- wrapper might look like this:
-
- for dir in /var/lib/collectd/rrd/$hostname/*; do
- out_dir=`basename "$dir"`
- mkdir -p $out_dir
- ( cd $out_dir && collectd2html.pl --data-dir="$dir" )
- done
-
- collection.cgi: Sample CGI script that creates graphs on the fly. The Perl
modules "RRDs" (package librrds-perl), "URI:Escape" (package liburi-perl),
"HTML::Entities" (package libhtml-parser-perl) and a CGI capable web server
(http://localhost/cgi-bin/collection.cgi by default). Please refer to your
webserver's documentation for more details.
- Starting with version 4, collection.cgi requires a small config file, which
- is installed to /etc/collectd/collection.conf. You should not need to change
- anything there.
+ collection.cgi requires a small config file, which is installed to
+ /etc/collectd/collection.conf. You should not need to change anything there.
- collection3: A graphing front-end for the RRD files created by and filled
with collectd. See /usr/share/doc/collectd/examples/collection3/README for