From: Florian Forster Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:07:38 +0000 (+0200) Subject: contrib/: Updated the `README' file. X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.0.0-rc4~8 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e41418336981d2bf5b6be1b0c625e04372948157;p=collectd.git contrib/: Updated the `README' file. --- diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README index 7f21040b..ab3c9781 100644 --- a/contrib/README +++ b/contrib/README @@ -2,11 +2,16 @@ The files in this directory may be used to perform common tasks that aren't exactly `collectd's job. They may or may not require in-depth knowlege 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 -most detailed of these old RRAs hat a one minute resolution. This script can be -used to add three more RRAs: minimum, maximum and average with a ten second +most detailed of these old RRAs hat a one minute resolution. This script can +be used to add three more RRAs: minimum, maximum and average with a ten second resolution and 2200 rows (~6 hours). This will make houly statistics much more 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. @@ -17,15 +22,28 @@ collectd2html.pl `/var/lib/collectd/' and generate an HTML file and a directory containing several PNG files which are graphs of the RRD files found. -collectd.conf -------------- - A sample config file. Used by the Debian package. - collection.cgi -------------- Sample CGI script that creates graphs on the fly. The Perl module `RRDs' is needed (Debian package `librrds-perl'). -init.d-rh7 ----------- - Sample init script. Used by the RPM specfile. +extractDS.px +------------ + Creates a new RRD-file with only one data-source (DS) of the source-RRD- +file. That is very handy when you realise that you have bundled up DSes in one +RRD-file that should have been in multiple RRD-files instead. Is is used by +`migrate-3-4.px' to split up the cpu-, nfs-, swap-files and possibly others. + +fedora/ +------- + Init-script and Spec-file that can be used when creating RPM-packages for +Fedora. + +migrate-3-4.px +-------------- + Migration-script to ease the switch from version 3 to version 4. Many +RRD-files are expected in a different place, some have been changed (DSes have +been renamed) and others have bee split up into multiple files. This script +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.