Hi Tom, Yup, that makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to explain this. :)
Otis -- Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Tom Throckmorton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/01/2013 04:11 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to trace https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Redis . >> This plugin doesn't appear to be included in any Collectd package out >> there. But some others, like mysql or ngingx, seem to be included. >> >> In case of https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Redis - I >> actually don't even see where to go to get this plugin, if it's >> available somewhere else, where one would grab it and compile it on >> their own. > > The plugin needs to be enabled at build time, by passing --enable-redis > to the configure script, but you'll also need to meet the deps first: > > https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Redis#Dependencies > > ...so, credis will need to be installed/available for your build. > > This is the general pattern for building all of the plugins. > >> How come some plugins are not included? > > Not all plugins are included in the packages you may be using, because > the depedencies required to build them aren't a standard part of the > build environment and weren't available at build time, or really > *should* be built against a particular version, or require a dependency > that can't be distributed with the source, and therefore *must* be built > by you (the Java and GenericJMX plugins are this way, from what I > recall, because they need to be built against a particular jdk). > > In the case where the deps are available to the builder (perhaps a > standard part of the build system, or distro), it's likely the plugins > will be be built. That's why you get MySQL and nginx plugins, because > those are more generally available. > > Make sense? > > -tt > > >> >> Thanks, >> Otis >> -- >> Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics >> Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> collectd mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd >> > _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
