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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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