how do I use connmon against a series of collectd servers?

[zzzeek]

given several hosts, which all have collectd sqlalchemy collecting stats. the collectd daemons are then connecting out to another collectd daemon outside the environment using the network plugin. now how do I connect connmon to that outside daemon and get everything? connmon is right now subscribing to the connmon server itself so only gets direct events. it seems like connmon should be a real output plugin.