Re: [munin-users] Wildcard plugins?

[Nicolai L. <ja...@li...>]

Francis Galiegue wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm a beginner with munin, got it (kind of) working and packaged (RPM, for 
> RHEL3.x). However, some things are quite obscure to my eyes, the first of it 
> being wildcard plugins. Indeed, I see a lot of plugins with underscores in 
> their names, I suppose this is what is meant by wildcard plugins.
> 
> There's no example on the Munin wiki about this. How can I make use of it?

The install process should make use of (some of) the wildcard plugins
automatically.  On my Debian box here, looking in /etc/munin/plugins I
find, among others, these symlinks:

if_err_eth0 -> /usr/share/munin/plugins/if_err_
if_err_eth1 -> /usr/share/munin/plugins/if_err_
if_eth0 -> /usr/share/munin/plugins/if_
if_eth1 -> /usr/share/munin/plugins/if_

As you see the names on the left hand side specifies the ethernet
interfaces to be graphed by the plugin named on the right side.

Nicolai