munin-node(8)

munin-node8

A daemon to gather information in cooperation with the main munin program

Usage

munin-node [--options]

Options

--config <configfile>

Use <file> as configuration file. [/etc/munin/munin-node.conf]

--[no]paranoia

Only run plugins owned by root. Check permissions as well. [--noparanoia]

--help

View this help message.

--debug

View debug messages.

Overview

Munin's node is a daemon that Munin connects to fetch data. This data is stored in .rrd-files, and later graphed and htmlified. It's designed to let it be very easy to graph new datasources.

Munin-node is a small perlscript listening to port 4949 using Net::Server. It reads all the plugins in /etc/munin/plugins/ on startup. The node accepts the following commands:

list [node]

list available plugins for host. If no hostname is specified, list plugins on host running munin-node

nodes

List nodes that has plugins in this munin-node.

config <plugin>

output plugin configuration

fetch <plugin>

output plugin values

version

Print versionstring

quit

disconnect

Plugins

These plugins can be in you language of choice: bash, perl, python, C. The plugins can be run in two modes: with and without the "config"-parameter. When run with "config" as parameter, the plugin should output the configuration of the graph. When run without parameters, the plugin should output just values

        # /etc/munin/plugins/load config
        host_name 
        graph_title Load average
        graph_args --base 1000 -l 0
        graph_vlabel load
        load.label load
        load.draw LINE2
        load.warning 10
        load.critical 120
        # /etc/munin/plugins/load
        load.value 0.43

For more information, see the documentation section at <http://munin.sf.net/>.

Files

        /etc/munin/munin-node.conf
        /etc/munin/plugins/*
        /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/*
        /var/run/munin/munin-node.pid
        /var/log/munin/munin-node

Version

This is munin-node v1.2.6

Releases

3 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0

--config since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --debug since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --help since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Authors

Audun Ytterdal, Jimmy Olsen, and Tore Anderson.

Bugs

munin-node does, as of now, not check the syntax of the configuration file.

Please report other bugs in the bug tracker at <http://munin.sf.net/>.

From munin-node 1.2.6-10~lenny2 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.