diff options
| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 11:08:07 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 11:08:07 +0000 |
| commit | c69cb8cc094cc916adbc516b09e944cd3d137c01 (patch) | |
| tree | f2878ec41fb6d0e3613906c6722fc02b934eeb80 /collectors/python.d.plugin/boinc/README.md | |
| parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
| download | netdata-c69cb8cc094cc916adbc516b09e944cd3d137c01.tar.xz netdata-c69cb8cc094cc916adbc516b09e944cd3d137c01.zip | |
Adding upstream version 1.29.3.upstream/1.29.3upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'collectors/python.d.plugin/boinc/README.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | collectors/python.d.plugin/boinc/README.md | 41 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/collectors/python.d.plugin/boinc/README.md b/collectors/python.d.plugin/boinc/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd509c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/collectors/python.d.plugin/boinc/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +<!-- +title: "BOINC monitoring with Netdata" +custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/collectors/python.d.plugin/boinc/README.md +sidebar_label: "BOINC" +--> + +# BOINC monitoring with Netdata + +Monitors task counts for the Berkeley Open Infrastructure Networking Computing (BOINC) distributed computing client using the same RPC interface that the BOINC monitoring GUI does. + +It provides charts tracking the total number of tasks and active tasks, as well as ones tracking each of the possible states for tasks. + +## Configuration + +Edit the `python.d/boinc.conf` configuration file using `edit-config` from the Netdata [config +directory](/docs/configure/nodes.md), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`. + +```bash +cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different +sudo ./edit-config python.d/boinc.conf +``` + +BOINC requires use of a password to access it's RPC interface. You can +find this password in the `gui_rpc_auth.cfg` file in your BOINC directory. + +By default, the module will try to auto-detect the password by looking +in `/var/lib/boinc` for this file (this is the location most Linux +distributions use for a system-wide BOINC installation), so things may +just work without needing configuration for the local system. + +You can monitor remote systems as well: + +```yaml +remote: + hostname: some-host + password: some-password +``` + +--- + +[](<>) |