- yyyy-mm-dd, Version 5.0.0
+ 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
* collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
* collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
allow a higher accuracy than one second.
technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
patience.
* modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
- license has been changes to LGPLv2.1.
+ license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
* mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
data sets used have been improved.
* network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
* v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
schema.
+ 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
+ * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
+ * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
+ Bruno Prémont.
+ * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
+ percentage calculation has been fixed.
+ * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
+ been improved.
+ * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
+ * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
+ fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
+ * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
+ * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
+ error handling case.
+ * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
+ collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
+ problem.
+
2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
* Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
* collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
* regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
Ammous for his patch.
+ 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
+ * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
+ * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
+ Bruno Prémont.
+ * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
+ percentage calculation has been fixed.
+ * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
+ been improved.
+ * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
+ fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
+ * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
+ error handling case.
+ * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
+ collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
+ problem.
+
2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
* Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
* collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
B<RegisterType> has been set to B<Uint32> or B<Float>, this and the next
register will be read (the register number is increased by one).
-=item B<RegisterType> B<Uint16>|B<Uint32>|B<Float>
+=item B<RegisterType> B<Int16>|B<Int32>|B<Uint16>|B<Uint32>|B<Float>
-Specifies what kind of data is returned by the device. If the type is B<Uint32>
-or B<Float>, two 16E<nbsp>bit registers will be read and the data is combined
-into one value. Defaults to B<Uint16>.
+Specifies what kind of data is returned by the device. If the type is B<Int32>,
+B<Uint32> or B<Float>, two 16E<nbsp>bit registers will be read and the data is
+combined into one value. Defaults to B<Uint16>.
=item B<Type> I<Type>
=item B<User> I<Username>
Username to use when connecting to the database. The user does not have to be
- granted any privileges (which is synonym to granting the C<USAGE> privilege).
- Any existing MySQL user will do.
+ granted any privileges (which is synonym to granting the C<USAGE> privilege),
+ unless you want to collectd replication statistics (see B<MasterStats> and
+ B<SlaveStats> below). In this case, the user needs the C<REPLICATION CLIENT>
+ (or C<SUPER>) privileges. Else, any existing MySQL user will do.
=item B<Password> I<Password>
=item B<SlaveStats> I<true|false>
- Enable the collection of master / slave statistics in a replication setup.
+ Enable the collection of master / slave statistics in a replication setup. In
+ order to be able to get access to these statistics, the user needs special
+ privileges. See the B<User> documentation above.
=item B<SlaveNotifications> I<true|false>
This plugin sends a desktop notification to a notification daemon, as defined
in the Desktop Notification Specification. To actually display the
notifications, B<notification-daemon> is required and B<collectd> has to be
- able to access the X server.
+ able to access the X server (i.E<nbsp>e., the C<DISPLAY> and C<XAUTHORITY>
+ environment variables have to be set correctly) and the D-Bus message bus.
The Desktop Notification Specification can be found at
L<http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/>.
=head2 Plugin C<swap>
The I<Swap plugin> collects information about used and available swap space. On
-I<Solaris>, the following options are available:
+I<Linux> and I<Solaris>, the following options are available:
=over 4
=item B<ReportByDevice> B<false>|B<true>
-Configures how to report physical swap devices. If set to B<false> is used (the
+Configures how to report physical swap devices. If set to B<false> (the
default), the summary over all swap devices is reported only, i.e. the globally
used and available space over all devices. If B<true> is configured, the used
and available space of each device will be reported separately.
-This option is only available if the I<Swap plugin> can use the L<swapctl(2)>
-mechanism under I<Solaris>.
+This option is only available if the I<Swap plugin> can read C</proc/swaps>
+(under Linux) or use the L<swapctl(2)> mechanism (under I<Solaris>).
=back