Munin-Contrib/plugins/transmission/README.md

Munin Transmission plugin

This plugin provides the following data/graphs:

• activity: displaying the number of active/inactive torrents
• status: displaying the number of torrents by their status (seeding, downloading, stopped, etc)
• traffic: showing network traffic (download, upload) generated by transmission

Installation, requirements

The plugin is written in python and uses the transmission-rpc. Install the package by pip:

sudo python3 -m pip install transmission-rpc

link the plugin to your /etc/munin/plugins/ directory:

cd /etc/munin/plugins/
ln -s /the/plugin/path/transmission_ transmission_activity
ln -s /the/plugin/path/transmission_ transmission_status
ln -s /the/plugin/path/transmission_ transmission_traffic

if your transmission doesn't run on the standard port or requires authentication, fill up the following variables (in /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/transmission):

[transmission*]
    env.host localhost
    env.port 9091
    env.user transmission
    env.pass secret

Example graphs

Torrent activity

Torrent status

Transmission upload/download traffic