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Manpage of SYSMOND
SYSMOND
Section: System Administration (man)
Updated: 20 June 2000
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NAME
sysmond - System Monitoring Utility
SYNOPSIS
sysmond
[ -d ]
[ -f
config file
]
[ -h ]
[ -n ]
[ -p
port
]
[ -v ]
DESCRIPTION
Sysmond
provides ability to monitor many services
The main configuration file
/etc/sysmon.conf
or an alternative file, given with the
-f
option, is read at startup. Any lines that begin with the hash mark
(``#'') and empty lines are ignored. If an error occurs during parsing
the whole line is ignored.
OPTIONS
- -d
-
Turns on debug mode. Using this the daemon will not proceed a
fork(2)
to set itself in the background, but opposite to that stay in the
foreground and write much debug information on the current tty. See the
DEBUGGING section for more information.
- -f config file
-
Specify an alternative configuration file instead of
/etc/sysmon.conf,
which is the default.
- -p portnum
-
Specify an alternate port number to run on
- -n
-
Tells sysmond to not send notifications to the contacts listed.
Primarily used for debugging only
- -t
-
This option will test the configuration file then exit rather than
starting the monitoring daemon.
- -v
-
Print version and exit.
SIGNALS
Sysmond
reacts to a set of signals. You may easily send a signal to
sysmond
using the following:
-
kill -SIGNAL process-id-of-sysmond
- SIGHUP
-
This lets
sysmond
perform a re-initialization. All open files are closed, the
configuration file (default is
/etc/sysmon.conf)
will be reread and the
monitoring is started again.
- SIGUSR2
-
This lets
sysmond
pause (or unpause) monitoring as desired. This is useful if you
will be performing network maintence and do not want to monitor
the network for a period of time.
- SIGTERM
-
The
sysmond
process will die.
DEBUGGING
When debugging is turned on using
-D
option then
sysmond
will be very verbose by writing much of what it does on stdout. Whenever
the configuration file is reread and re-parsed you'll see a lot of data,
corresponding to the internal data structure.
FILES
- /etc/sysmon.conf
-
Configuration file for
sysmond.
See
sysmon.conf(man)
for exact information.
SEE ALSO
sysmon.conf(man)
COLLABORATORS
Sysmon is primarily written by
- Jared Mauch
-
- jared@puck.nether.net
-
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- OPTIONS
-
- SIGNALS
-
- DEBUGGING
-
- FILES
-
- SEE ALSO
-
- COLLABORATORS
-
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