[pve-devel] [PATCH docs] add documatation for graphite tcp support

Martin Verges martin.verges at croit.io
Tue Nov 5 17:38:10 CET 2019


Signed-off-by: Martin Verges <martin.verges at croit.io>
---
 pve-external-metric-server.adoc | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pve-external-metric-server.adoc b/pve-external-metric-server.adoc
index c9e1107..1497a44 100644
--- a/pve-external-metric-server.adoc
+++ b/pve-external-metric-server.adoc
@@ -24,12 +24,16 @@ The definition of a server is:
     server your-server
     port your-port
     path your-path
+	  proto udp-or-tcp
+		timeout in-seconds
 ----
 
-where your-port defaults to *2003* and your-path defaults to *proxmox*
+where your-port defaults to *2003*, your-path defaults to *proxmox*,
+proto defaults to *udp*, and timeout defaults to *3*.
 
-{pve} sends the data over UDP, so the graphite server has to be configured
-for this.
+{pve} by default sends the data over UDP, so the graphite server has to 
+be configured for this. If UDP is not available you can explicitly change 
+it using proto tcp.
 
 Influxdb plugin configuration
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- 
2.20.1




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