collectdctl (1) - Linux Manuals
collectdctl: Control interface for collectd
NAME
collectdctl - Control interface for collectd
SYNOPSIS
collectdctl [options] <command> [command options]DESCRIPTION
collectdctl provides a control interface for collectd, which may be used to interact with the daemon using the "unixsock plugin".OPTIONS
collectdctl supports the following options:- -s socket
- Path to the UNIX socket opened by collectd's "unixsock plugin". Default: /var/run/collectd-unixsock
- -h
- Display usage information and exit.
AVAILABLE COMMANDS
The following commands are supported:- getval <identifier>
- Query the latest collected value identified by the specified <identifier> (see below). The value-list associated with that data-set is returned as a list of key-value-pairs, each on its own line. Keys and values are separated by the equal sign ("=").
- flush [timeout=<seconds>] [plugin=<name>] [identifier=<id>]
-
Flush the daemon. This is useful, e. g., to make sure that the latest
values have been written to the respective RRD file before graphing them or
copying them to somewhere else.
The following options are supported by the flush command:
-
- timeout=<seconds>
- Flush values older than the specified timeout (in seconds) only.
- plugin=<name>
-
Flush the specified plugin only. I. e., data cached by the specified
plugin is written to disk (or network or whatever), if the plugin supports
that operation.
Example: rrdtool.
- identifier=<id>
- If this option is present, only the data specified by the specified identifier (see below) will be flushed. Note that this option is not supported by all plugins (e. g., the "network" plugin does not support this).
-
The plugin and identifier options may be specified more than once. In that case, all combinations of specified plugins and identifiers will be flushed only.
-
- listval
- Returns a list of all values (by their identifier) available to the "unixsock" plugin. Each value is printed on its own line. I. e., this command returns a list of valid identifiers that may be used with the other commands.
- putval <identifier> [interval=<seconds>] <value-list(s)>
- Submit one or more values (identified by <identifier>, see below) to the daemon which will then dispatch them to the write plugins. interval specifies the interval (in seconds) used to collect the values following that option. It defaults to the default of the running collectd instance receiving the data. Multiple <value-list(s)> (see below) may be specified. Each of them will be submitted to the daemon. The values have to match the data-set definition specified by the type as given in the identifier (see types.db(5) for details).
IDENTIFIERS
An identifier has the following format:[hostname/]plugin[-plugin_instance]/type[-type_instance]
Examples:
Hostname defaults to the local (non-fully qualified) hostname if omitted. No
error is returned if the specified identifier does not exist (this is a
limitation in the "libcollectdclient" library).
collectdctl has been written by
HXkon J Dugstad Johnsen <hakon-dugstad.johnsen at telenor.com>
and Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org>.
VALUE-LIST
A value list describes one data-set as handled by collectd. It is a colon
(":") separated list of the time and the values. Each value is either given
as an integer if the data-type is a counter, or as a double if the data-type
is a gauge value. A literal "U" is interpreted as an undefined gauge value.
The number of values and the data-types have to match the type specified in
the identifier (see types.db(5) for details). The time is specified as
epoch (i. e., standard UNIX time) or as a literal "N" which will be
interpreted as now.
EXAMPLES
AUTHOR
collectd has been written by Florian Forster <octo at collectd.org>
and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').