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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2018-11-07 12:22:44 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2018-11-07 12:22:44 +0000 |
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Merging upstream version 1.11.0+dfsg.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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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 000000000..595bcd3c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/collectors/python.d.plugin/boinc/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# boinc + +This module monitors task counts for the Berkely 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 + +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 +``` + +--- |