anchor.diff:  For this to work, the packets from Ganglia need to have a large enough TTL to be seen on the host where you run pTrans.
   
   Excerpt from gmond.conf:
  -
   ----
   udp_send_channel {
    mcast_join = 239.2.11.71
  
positive.code: === StatsD
  
  The converter accepts statsD packets sent via UDP (to the UDP port).
  Format is
  
    key:value|type
  
  
  Where only key and value are accepted and the type is ignored (for now).
  
  E.g.: `$ echo "my_time:100|ms" | nc -u4 localhost 8125`
  
  
  == Running ptrans
  
  *With `start.sh`*
  
  You can use the provided `start.sh` script to start the server (this will build the source first).
  
  Before you start the proxy, make sure the rest-server is running.
  
  Make sure to specify a configuration file on the command line:
  
   $ ./start.sh -c ptrans.conf
  
  *With Maven*
  
  Once the project is built, simply run the following command:
  
   mvn exec:java
  
  By default, the ptrans.conf configuration at the project base directory will be used.
  
  == Room for improvement:
  
  * add information about the remote to the key so make the key unique
  * reconnect to the rest server if it goes down
  * add a syslog file tailer
  * allow to start even if the rest server is not available
  * allow for more syslog formats
  * support reliable syslog protocol
negative.code: = ptrans - An Hawkular Metrics proxy
  :type: article
  
  This is a proxy server taking in metrics data in several common formats and emitting
  them as REST requests into Hawkular Metrics backend for storage.
  
  == Supported input formats
  
  === Syslog
  
  This module contains a simple proxy server that also listens on UDP port 5140
  for syslog messages. If a message is of the format:
  ----
  type=metric thread.count=7 thread.active=5 heap.permgen.size=20000000
  ----
  Then it is taken and the individual key-value-pairs are broken apart and
  sent as individual metrics to a hawkular-metrics rest server. The timestamp
  is the current time on the proxy when the udp packet was received.
  