From 0e21a36c0efe84ffe74eac697435deaf7d3c1022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Forster Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:16:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: Updated the informatioin about plugins and prerequisites. --- README | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 0fd37263..4a09fee5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -51,9 +51,15 @@ Features - System load (Load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes) + - mbmon - motherboard monitoring + (temperature, fanspeed and voltage information) + - Memory utilization (Memory occupied by running processes, page cache, buffer cache and free) + - Multimeter + (Information provided by serial multimeters, such as the «Metex M-4650CR») + - MySQL server statistics (Commands issued, handlers triggered, thread usage, query cache utilization and traffic sent/received) @@ -136,22 +142,31 @@ Prerequisites * Usual suspects: C compiler, linker, preprocessor, make, ... - * rrdtool (headers and library; rrdtool 1.0 and 1.2 both work fine) + * rrdtool (optional; headers and library; rrdtool 1.0 and 1.2 both work fine) If built without `librrd' the resulting binary will be `client only', i.e. will send it's values via multicast and not create any RRD files itself. + Alternatively you can chose to write CSV-files (Comma Seperated Values) + instead. * libmysqlclient (optional) * lm-sensors (optional) * libstatgrab may be used to collect statistics on systems other than Linux - and/or Solaris. Note that CPU- and disk-statistics, while being provided by - this library, are not supported in collectd right now.. + and/or Solaris. Note that CPU- and disk-statistics, while being provided + by this library, are not supported in collectd right now.. * libcurl (optional) If you want to use the `apache' plugin + * librt, libsocket, libkstat, libdevinfo + Various standard Solaris libraries which provide system functions. + + * libpthread (optional) + For parallelization, especially for plugins that communicate with the + outside, e. g. with a socket. + * CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework For copiling on darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in particular. -- 2.11.0