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NAME
sysmond - System Monitoring Utility
SYNOPSIS
sysmond [ -d ] [ -f config-file ] [ -h ] [ -n ] [ -p port ] [ -v ] [ -q
] [ reload ] [ pause ] [ resume ] [ stop ]
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.
-q Quiet mode on stdout/err
reload
Send the running sysmond a SIGHUP so it re-reads the config file.
pause
Send the running sysmond a SIGUSR2 so it pauses monitoring.
pause
Send the running sysmond a SIGUSR2 so it resumes monitoring.
stop Send the running sysmond a SIGTERM so it shuts down. The keywords
shutdown and suicide also work.
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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.
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@sysmon.org
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