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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 +``` + +--- + +[](<>) |