From 6a3f4941a58714a229ec7d1ee26199c2de3a359d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Forster Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:23:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: Added the python plugin. --- README | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 07a7415a..70118ad1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -214,6 +214,12 @@ Features - protocols Counts various aspects of network protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, etc. + - python + The python plugin implements a Python interpreter into collectd. This + makes it possible to write plugins in Python which are executed by + collectd without the need to start a heavy interpreter every interval. + See collectd-python(5) for details. + - rrdcached RRDtool caching daemon (RRDcacheD) statistics. @@ -298,6 +304,10 @@ Features you can easily do weird stuff with the plugins we didn't dare think of ;) See collectd-perl(5). + - python + It's possible to implement write plugins in Python using the python + plugin. See collectd-python(5) for details. + - rrdcached Output to round-robin-database (RRD) files using the RRDtool caching daemon (RRDcacheD) - see rrdcached(1). That daemon provides a general @@ -330,6 +340,10 @@ Features Log messages are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well. See collectd-perl(5). + - python + It's possible to implement log plugins in Python using the python plugin. + See collectd-python(5) for details. + - syslog Logs to the standard UNIX logging mechanism, syslog. @@ -359,6 +373,10 @@ Features Notifications are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well. See collectd-perl(5). + - python + It's possible to implement notification plugins in Python using the + python plugin. See collectd-python(5) for details. + * Value processing can be controlled using the "filter chain" infrastructure and "matches" and "targets". The following plugins are available: @@ -545,6 +563,10 @@ Prerequisites The PostgreSQL C client library used by the `postgresql' plugin. + * libpython (optional) + Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported. + + * librrd (optional) Used by the `rrdtool' and `rrdcached' plugins. The latter requires RRDtool client support which was added after version 1.3 of RRDtool. Versions 1.0, -- 2.11.0