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Monitord is a compact Perl-based tool for watching the health of UNIX
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systems. Monitord monitors the local system by watching the process
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table, load average figures, the amount of free space in file systems,
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and the output of custom monitoring scripts.
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Monitord is not tied to any system management framework (e.g., HP
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OpenView), and executes custom commands for producing its output.
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Therefore, monitord can be plugged in to any existing monitoring
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framework, provided the framework has a reasonable API, or used as a
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standalone tool.
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Monitord's configuration file resembles the configuration file of the
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Net-SNMP agent, except a number of additional parameters. However,
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unlike any SNMP agent, monitord does not have to be polled for getting
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results, but it rather produces asynchronous output events which is a
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more scalable approach. Monitord is also able to generate periodic
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keepalive events, so its own health can be monitored by another
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applicaton.
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For more information, read the output of monitord --help.
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