# Parameters

<table border="1" id="bkmrk--h%2C---help-informaci" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 382.5px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 29.8px;"><td style="height: 29.8px;">-h, --help  
</td><td style="height: 29.8px;">**Help information on the plugin arguments.**  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.9667px;"><td style="height: 29.9667px;">-c, --collectdctl  
</td><td style="height: 29.9667px;">**Path of** `collectdctl`.  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.7667px;"><td style="height: 46.7667px;">-r, --add\_regexp</td><td style="height: 46.7667px;">**Regular expression (regexp) to add metrics** (by default `.*`).  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.6px;"><td style="height: 46.6px;">-R, --ignore\_regexp</td><td style="height: 46.6px;">**Regular expression (regexp) to remove metrics** (by default none).  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.6px;"><td style="height: 46.6px;">-d, --agent\_description</td><td style="height: 46.6px;">**Description of the agent created by the plugin** (by default "Agent from pandora\_collectd").  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.7667px;"><td style="height: 46.7667px;">-a, --agent\_alias</td><td style="height: 46.7667px;">**Name of the agent created by the plugin** (by default `pandora_collectd`).  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.6px;"><td style="height: 46.6px;">-i, --tentacle\_ip</td><td style="height: 46.6px;">**IP address of the Tentacle server** (by default 127.0.0.1).  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.8px;"><td style="height: 29.8px;">-p, --tentacle\_port</td><td style="height: 29.8px;">**Tentacle port** (by default 41121).  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.8px;"><td style="height: 29.8px;">-O, --tentacle\_extra\_opts</td><td style="height: 29.8px;">**Tentacle extra options** (by default none)  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.8px;"><td style="height: 29.8px;">-v, --verbose</td><td style="height: 29.8px;">**Displays all values obtained on the screen.**  
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<p class="callout info">Python regular expressions [https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax)</p>