COLLECTDMON(1) collectd COLLECTDMON(1)NAME
collectdmon - Monitoring daemon for collectd
SYNOPSIS
collectdmon [options] [-- collectd options]
DESCRIPTION
collectdmon is a small "wrapper" daemon which starts and monitors the collectd daemon. If collectd terminates it will automatically be
restarted, unless collectdmon was told to shut it down.
OPTIONS
collectdmon supports the following options:
-c <path>
Specify the pathname of the collectd binary. You may either specify an absolute path or simply the name of the binary in which case the
PATH variable will be searched for it. The default is "collectd".
-P <pid-file>
Specify the pid file. The default is "/var/run/collectdmon.pid".
-h Output usage information and exit.
collectd options
Specify options that are passed on to collectd. If it is not already included, -f will be added to these options. See collectd(1).
SIGNALS
collectdmon accepts the following signals:
SIGINT, SIGTERM
These signals cause collectdmon to terminate collectd, wait for its termination and then shut down.
SIGHUP
This signal causes collectdmon to terminate collectd, wait for its termination and then restart it.
SEE ALSO collectd(1), collectd.conf(5), <http://collectd.org/>
AUTHOR
collectd has been written by Florian Forster <octo at verplant.org> and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').
collectdmon has been written by Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>.
5.1.0 2012-04-02 COLLECTDMON(1)
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COLLECTD(1) collectd COLLECTD(1)NAME
collectd - System statistics collection daemon
SYNOPSIS
collectd [options]
DESCRIPTION
collectd is a daemon that receives system statistics and makes them available in a number of ways. The main daemon itself doesn't have any
real functionality apart from loading, querying and submitting to plugins. For a description of available plugins please see "PLUGINS"
below.
OPTIONS
Most of collectd's configuration is done using using a configfile. See collectd.conf(5) for an in-depth description of all options.
-C <config-file>
Specify an alternative config file. This is the place to go when you wish to change collectd's behavior. The path may be relative to
the current working directory.
-t Test the configuration only. The program immediately exits after parsing the config file. A return code not equal to zero indicates an
error.
-T Test the plugin read callbacks only. The program immediately exits after invoking the read callbacks once. A return code not equal to
zero indicates an error.
-P <pid-file>
Specify an alternative pid file. This overwrites any settings in the config file. This is thought for init-scripts that require the
PID-file in a certain directory to work correctly. For everyday-usage use the PIDFile config-option.
-f Don't fork to the background. collectd will also not close standard file descriptors, detach from the session nor write a pid file.
This is mainly thought for 'supervising' init replacements such as runit.
-h Output usage information and exit.
PLUGINS
As noted above, the real power of collectd lies within it's plugins. A (hopefully complete) list of plugins and short descriptions can be
found in the README file that is distributed with the sourcecode. If you're using a package it's a good bet to search somewhere near
/usr/share/doc/collectd.
There are two big groups of plugins, input and output plugins:
o Input plugins are queried periodically. They somehow acquire the current value of whatever they where designed to work with and submit
these values back to the daemon, i. e. they "dispatch" the values. As an example, the "cpu plugin" reads the current cpu-counters of
time spent in the various modes (user, system, nice, ...) and dispatches these counters to the daemon.
o Output plugins get the dispatched values from the daemon and does something with them. Common applications are writing to RRD-files,
CSV-files or sending the data over a network link to a remote box.
Of course not all plugins fit neatly into one of the two above categories. The "network plugin", for example, is able to send (i. e.
"write") and receive (i. e. "dispatch") values. Also, it opens a socket upon initialization and dispatches the values when it receives them
and isn't triggered at the same time the input plugins are being read. You can think of the network receive part as working asynchronous if
it helps.
In addition to the above, there are "logging plugins". Right now those are the "logfile plugin" and the "syslog plugin". With these plugins
collectd can provide information about issues and significant situations to the user. Several loglevels let you suppress uninteresting
messages.
Starting with version 4.3.0 collectd has support for monitoring. This is done by checking thresholds defined by the user. If a value is out
of range, a notification will be dispatched to "notification plugins". See collectd.conf(5) for more detailed information about threshold
checking.
Please note that some plugins, that provide other means of communicating with the daemon, have manpages of their own to describe their
functionality in more detail. In particular those are collectd-email(5), collectd-exec(5), collectd-perl(5), collectd-snmp(5), and
collectd-unixsock(5)SIGNALS
collectd accepts the following signals:
SIGINT, SIGTERM
These signals cause collectd to shut down all plugins and terminate.
SIGUSR1
This signal causes collectd to signal all plugins to flush data from internal caches. E. g. the "rrdtool plugin" will write all pending
data to the RRD files. This is the same as using the "FLUSH -1" command of the "unixsock plugin".
SEE ALSO collectd.conf(5), collectd-email(5), collectd-exec(5), collectd-perl(5), collectd-snmp(5), collectd-unixsock(5), types.db(5),
<http://collectd.org/>
AUTHOR
Florian Forster <octo@verplant.org>
5.1.0 2012-04-02 COLLECTD(1)