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About the plugins
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The node will scan the directory /etc/munin/plugins for executable
files (or symlinks to such files), and will treat the results as the
authoritative list of plugins to run. The maintainer scripts will have
created a default set of enabled plugins, attuned to your system.
You'll find more plugins in /usr/share/munin/plugins, which you can
enable by creating symlinks into /etc/munin/plugins as appropriate.
Creating your own plugins is very easy. Read the rest of the included
documents, take a look at the provided plugins, and write your own.
Please use Latin-1 as file encoding since munin expects only Latin-1
characters. Place it in /etc/munin/plugins/, and restart the client.
The core process will automatically notice the new service, and start
graphing it.
Locally modified plugins
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If you wish to change the behaviour of the provided plugins, you are
strongly encouraged to make a copy of the plugin as installed in
/usr/share/munin/plugins/, and place it in /etc/munin/plugins/. Then,
make your modifications in the copy. I strenously stress that it is
discouraged to make local modifications directly in plugins found in the
/usr/share/munin/plugin/ directories, as these files are managed by
dpkg - changes may very well be overwritten on upgrades. Also, such
changes will likely break intrusion detection systems which relies
on dpkg's database for reference.
It is worth noting that many things can be overrided in the core process'
configuration file, so it is quite possible that a modification is not
necessary.
Suggestions? Impressions? Questions? Fanmail? Love letters? Murder threats?
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We've got a mailing list. You'll find subscription information at
<http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/munin-users>. All feedback
are welcome.
If you feel like sending us things that can't be represented in binary (for
example beautiful women fluent in assembly, bacillus anthracis, cash,
explosives, and so on), take contact off-list, and we'll find a way of
arranging the logistics.
Find the upstream source
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This Debian package uses the upstream tarball located here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/munin .
It also uses quilt to apply some debian specific patches located in
./debian/patches/
Enjoy! :-)
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