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+# 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
+```
+
+---