From 50485bedfd9818165aa1d039d0abe95a559134b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 08:31:03 +0100 Subject: Merging upstream version 1.12.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- collectors/cups.plugin/README.md | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 collectors/cups.plugin/README.md (limited to 'collectors/cups.plugin/README.md') diff --git a/collectors/cups.plugin/README.md b/collectors/cups.plugin/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7baf88559 --- /dev/null +++ b/collectors/cups.plugin/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +# cups.plugin + +`cups.plugin` collects Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) metrics. + +## Prerequisites + +This plugin needs a running local CUPS daemon (`cupsd`). This plugin does not need any configuration. + +## Charts + +`cups.plugin` provides one common section `destinations` and one section per destination. + +> Destinations in CUPS represent individual printers or classes (collections or pools) of printers (https://www.cups.org/doc/cupspm.html#working-with-destinations) + +The section `server` provides these charts: + +1. **destinations by state** + * idle + * printing + * stopped + +2. **destinations by options** + * total + * accepting jobs + * shared + +3. **total job number by status** + * pending + * processing + * held + +4. **total job size by status** + * pending + * processing + * held + +For each destination the plugin provides these charts: + +1. **job number by status** + * pending + * held + * processing + +3. **job size by status** + * pending + * held + * processing + +At the moment only job status pending, processing, and held are reported because we do not have a method to collect stopped, canceled, aborted and completed jobs which scales. -- cgit v1.2.3