Collectd

Table 1. Collectd configuration file overview
File Description Reload Event Restart Required

collectd-configuration.xml

This file defines which collections are being collected and assigned to which nodes. A reload command changed configuration parameters of existing monitors.

yes

yes

jdbc-datacollection-config.xml

Defines JDBC data collections. Attributes are retrieved using SQL queries.

no

yes

http-datacollection-config.xml

Defines HTTP data collections. Attributes are extracted from the HTTP responses using a regular expression.

no

yes

xml-datacollection-config.xml

Defines data collections that can be extracted from XML or JSON documents.

no

yes