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B<Interface> is inverted: All selected interfaces are ignored and all
other interfaces are collected.
+It is possible to use regular expressions to match interface names, if the
+name is surrounded by I</.../> and collectd was compiled with support for
+regexps. This is useful if there's a need to collect (or ignore) data
+for a group of interfaces that are similarly named, without the need to
+explicitly list all of them (especially useful if the list is dynamic).
+Example:
+
+ Interface "lo"
+ Interface "/^veth/"
+ Interface "/^tun[0-9]+/"
+ IgnoreSelected "true"
+
+This will ignore the loopback interface, all interfaces with names starting
+with I<veth> and all interfaces with names starting with I<tun> followed by
+at least one digit.
+
+
=item B<UniqueName> I<true>|I<false>
Interface name is not unique on Solaris (KSTAT), interface name is unique
=item B<CounterSum> B<false>|B<true>
-When enabled, create a C<count> metric which reports the change since the last
+When enabled, creates a C<count> metric which reports the change since the last
read. This option primarily exists for compatibility with the I<statsd>
-impelemtation by Etsy.
+implementation by Etsy.
=item B<TimerPercentile> I<Percent>