X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=0fd37263da26a5c297e5df182e962ede8afa5813;hb=aa4e094aa57f301d7c7710007e8c4eaf6f33ebf0;hp=18fcf0a4ac89146b761d7a18afe5dd9dd97b1127;hpb=eddff8ebda1e86f910aa27497edeb0bae46610fd;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index 18fcf0a4..0fd37263 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ collectd - System information collection daemon ================================================= -http://verplant.org/collectd/ +http://collectd.org/ About ----- @@ -14,6 +14,19 @@ Features * collectd is able to collect the following data: + - Apache server utilization + (Number of bytes transfered, number of requests handled and detailed + scoreboard statistics) + + - APC UPS Daemon + (UPS charge, load, input/output/battery voltage, etc) + + - Apple Sensors + (Temperature, fanspeed and voltage sensors of apple computers) + + - Battery + (Charge, current and charge of ACPI and PMU based batteries) + - CPU utilization (Time spent in system, user, nice and idle) @@ -26,6 +39,12 @@ Features - Disk utilization (Sectors read/written, number of read/write actions, time spent doing IO) + - DNS traffic + (query types, response codes, opcodes and traffic) + + - Email statistics + (count, traffic, spam scores and checks) + - Harddisk temperatures (Uhm, yeah, temperature of harddisks that is ;) @@ -36,23 +55,27 @@ Features (Memory occupied by running processes, page cache, buffer cache and free) - MySQL server statistics - (Commands issued, handlers triggered and traffic sent/received) + (Commands issued, handlers triggered, thread usage, query cache + utilization and traffic sent/received) - NFS Procedures (Which NFS command were called how often. Only NFSv2 and NFSv3 right now) + - NTP Daemon + (Local clock drift, offset to peers, etc) + - Ping latency (Time to reach the default gateway or another given host) - Process counts (Number of running, sleeping, zombie, ... processes) + - Sensors + (lm_sensors voltages, temperatures and fan rotation speeds) + - Serial (RX and TX of serial interfaces) - - Sensors - (System temperatured and fan rotation speeds) - - Swap (Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..) @@ -65,6 +88,12 @@ Features - Users (Currently logged in users) + - VServer + (System ressources used by vservers) + + - Wireless + (Link quality of wireless cards) + * Performance: Running as a daemon collectd doesn't spend much time in startup. Since collectd links against libping, librrd and libsensors it doesn't need to start any other processes. @@ -95,14 +124,9 @@ Operation own experiments.. Some of them require the `RRDs' Perl module. (`librrds-perl' on Debian) - * The RRD-files that collectd creates hold the following data. Use ``rrdtool - resize'' if you want to cover longer/shorter periods of time. - - Resolution | Data points | Timespan - -----------+-------------+---------- - 60 seconds | 1500 | 25 hours - 30 minutes | 1680 | 35 days - 6 hours | 1520 | 380 days + * The RRAs of the automatically created RRD files depend on the `step' + and `heartbeat' settings given on compile time. For a list of the + default RRAs take a look in the collectd(1) manpage. Prerequisites @@ -125,6 +149,13 @@ Prerequisites this library, are not supported in collectd right now.. + * libcurl (optional) + If you want to use the `apache' plugin + + * CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework + For copiling on darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in + particular. + Author ------