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.

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.

COLLABORATORS

Sysmon is primarily written by

Jared Mauch
jared@puck.nether.net