key-value-pair. A list of currently understood options can be found below, all
other options will be ignored.
-I<Valuelist> is a colon-seperated list of the time and the values, each either
+I<Valuelist> is a colon-separated list of the time and the values, each either
an integer if the data-source is a counter, of a double if the data-source if
of type "gauge". You can submit an undefined gauge-value by using B<U>. When
submitting B<U> to a counter the behavior is undefined. The time is given as
Since the aim of the C<snmp plugin> is to provide a generic interface to SNMP,
it's configuration is not trivial and may take some time.
-Since the C<Net-SNMP> library is used you cann use all the environment
+Since the C<Net-SNMP> library is used you can use all the environment
variables that are interpreted by that package. See L<snmpcmd(1)> for more
details.
If B<Table> is set to I<true>, you may feel the need to add something to the
instance of the files. If set, I<String> is prepended to the instance as
-determinded by querying the agent. When B<Table> is set to I<false> this option
+determined by querying the agent. When B<Table> is set to I<false> this option
has no effect.
The C<UPS-MIB> is an example where you need this setting: It has voltages of
=item B<LISTVAL>
-Returnes a list of the values available in the value cache together with the
+Returns a list of the values available in the value cache together with the
time of the last update, so that querying applications can issue a B<GETVAL>
command for the values that have changed.
The first line's status number is the number of identifiers returned or less
-than zero if an error occured. Each of the following lines containes the
-update time as an epoch value and the identifier, seperated by a space.
+than zero if an error occurred. Each of the following lines contains the
+update time as an epoch value and the identifier, separated by a space.
Example:
-> | LISTVAL
key-value-pair. A list of currently understood options can be found below, all
other options will be ignored.
-I<Valuelist> is a colon-seperated list of the time and the values, each either
+I<Valuelist> is a colon-separated list of the time and the values, each either
an integer if the data-source is a counter, of a double if the data-source if
of type "gauge". You can submit an undefined gauge-value by using B<U>. When
submitting B<U> to a counter the behavior is undefined. The time is given as
=head2 Plugin C<nginx>
-This plugin collects the number of connections and requests handeled by the
+This plugin collects the number of connections and requests handled by the
C<nginx daemon> (speak: engineE<nbsp>X), a HTTP and mail server/proxy. It
queries the page provided by the C<ngx_http_stub_status_module> module, which
isn't compiled by default. Please refer to
=item B<LocalPort> I<Port>
Count the connections to a specific local port. This can be used to see how
-many connections are handeled by a specific daemon, e.E<nbsp>g. the mailserver.
+many connections are handled by a specific daemon, e.E<nbsp>g. the mailserver.
You have to specify the port in numeric form, so for the mailserver example
you'd need to set B<25>.
=item B<RemotePort> I<Port>
-Count the connections to a specific remote port. This is usefull to see how
+Count the connections to a specific remote port. This is useful to see how
much a remote service is used. This is most useful if you want to know how many
connections a local service has opened to remote services, e.E<nbsp>g. how many
connections a mail server or news server has to other mail or news servers, or