Well-known plugin categories
A plugin that outputs a graph_category attribute will get the graph grouped with other graphs with the same category. This table lists some well-known graph categories and some example data sources suitable for the different categories.
| Apache | All kinds of Apache measurements |
| Bind | All kinds of BIND measurements, e.g. number and types of queries. |
| Disk | Disk measurements (disk space, free inodes, throughput etc) |
| Exim | Exim measurements |
| Mysql | MySQL measurements |
| Network | Network efficiency, bandwidth, amounts of data transported etc |
| NFS | FIXME |
| OpenLDAP | Different aspects of the OpenLDAP server, e.g. number of queries pr second and the degree of indexed values |
| Other | The default if no graph_category is set. |
| Postfix | Postfix measurements: Mail throughput, mail queues, etc. |
| Postgresql | Measurements on Postgresql database behaviour. |
| Processes | Process and kernel related measurements. |
| Sensors | Temperatures, voltages, fan speeds. Note that disk temperatures (read through smartctl) are also classified here. |
| Time | NTP measurements |
| Vserver | Vserver measurements |
Should categories be more generic? ie. instead of "postgresql" and "mysql", why not "database"? Instead of Postfix and Exim, why not "Mail"? That would facilitate classification of new plugins (e.g. where do I put "amavis" or "spamassassin" filters? they would go well into "Mail", otherwise I need a new category), and would also make the whole thing more accessible, as people will understand more "Mail" than "Exim". -- TheAnarcat
Categories requested through Muninexchange, in no particular order:
- cisco
- gameserver
- windows
- rhel
- powerMTA
- netware
- lighttpd
- website check
- SNMP
- dovecot
- vsftpd
- qpsmtpd
- Shoutcast
- SNMP from jboss
- vserver
- freebsd IOstats and CPU (that work with multiple CPU per server)
- Castlerock http://www.castlerock.com/
- syscp http://www.syscp.org/
- zope and zeo
- Condor
- NFSv4
- LVS, to monitor keepalived
- LVM, to monitor committed space on snapshots
- Bugzilla
- pgpool http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/
