COLLECTD-TG(1)

✨ COLLECTD-TG ✨

okay bestie, welcome to collectd-tg, a page straight out of the collectd manual 💖 this little icon is a traffic generator, and we're gonna go through it together, no cap.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

collectd-tg — Traffic generator for collectd. that's it, that's the whole job description 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

collectd-tg -n num_vl -H num_hosts -p num_plugins -i interval -d dest -D
dport

like, that's the shape of it. every single one of those flags gets explained below, so don't panic 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so collectd-tg generates bogus collectd network traffic. fake it till you make it, literally ✨

here's the cute part: while the host, plugin and values are all generated randomly, the generated traffic tries to mimic "real" traffic as closely as possible. it's giving method acting 😭 it's fake but it's committed to the bit.

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👑 ARGUMENTS AND OPTIONS 👑

these are the options collectd-tg understands, bestie. the order of the arguments generally doesn't matter, as long as no argument is passed more than once. so mix and match, but don't double up 🙈

• -n num_vl — sets the number of unique value lists (VL) to generate. defaults to 10000. that's a lot of value lists, she's ambitious 💜
• -H num_hosts — sets the number of unique hosts to simulate. defaults to 1000. a whole thousand fake besties 🌸
• -p num_plugins — sets the number of unique plugins to simulate. defaults to 20 ✨
• -i interval — sets the interval in which each value list is dispatched. defaults to 10.0 seconds. every 10.0 seconds she sends one out, like clockwork 🎀
• -d dest — sets the destination to which to send the generated network traffic. defaults to the IPv6 multicast address, ff18::efc0:4a42. yes, the default is an IPv6 multicast address, she's fancy like that 👑
• -D dport — sets the destination port or service to which to send the generated network traffic. defaults to collectd's default port, 25826 💅
• -h — print usage summary. the classic. when in doubt, ask for help 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• collectd(1)
• collectd.conf(5)

go read those too, iykyk 📚

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Florian Forster <octo at collectd.org> — thank you for your service, icon 🫡✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this version was living in 5.11.0.94.g41b1e33, dated 2020-07-20, and it's a COLLECTD-TG(1) moment fr fr 💅🎀🦋 no cap, go generate some traffic 💜