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pea 828c5c820c First import of mon. mon is a tool for monitoring the availability of services, and sending alerts on prescribed events. Services are defined as anything tested by a "monitor" program, which can be something as simple as pinging a system, or as complex as analyzing the results of an application-level transaction. Alerts are actions such as sending emails, making submissions to ticketing systems, or triggering resource fail-over in a high-availability cluster. ok jasper@	2009-11-10 14:33:50 +00:00
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README.OpenBSD	First import of mon.	2009-11-10 14:33:50 +00:00

mon is a tool for monitoring the availability of services, and sending alerts
on prescribed events. Services are defined as anything tested by a "monitor"
program, which can be something as simple as pinging a system, or as complex
as analyzing the results of an application-level transaction. Alerts are
actions such as sending emails, making submissions to ticketing systems, or
triggering resource fail-over in a high-availability cluster.

ok jasper@

2009-11-10 14:33:50 +00:00

README.OpenBSD

First import of mon.

2009-11-10 14:33:50 +00:00

README.OpenBSD

$OpenBSD: README.OpenBSD,v 1.1.1.1 2009/11/10 14:33:50 pea Exp $

mon is a tool for monitoring the availability of services and sending alerts 
on prescribed events.

This is a small howto to get mon running in a basic setup.

 1. Edit ${SYSCONFDIR}/mon/mon.cf to fit your needs.
 
 2. You may need additional perl modules in order to use some monitors.
    Check your monitor file with perl -c.
    Example: perl -c ${TRUEPREFIX}/lib/mon/mon.d/dns.monitor

 3. Launch mon in debug mode:
    su -l _mon -c "${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/mon -c /etc/mon/mon.cf -d -P /var/run/mon.pid"

 4. When everything is ok, launch mon as a daemon:
    su -l _mon -c "${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/mon -c /etc/mon/mon.cf -f -P /var/run/mon.pid"

 5. Add the following to your /etc/rc.local:
    if [ -x ${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/mon ] ; then
	su -l _mon -c "${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/mon -c /etc/mon/mon.cf -f -P /var/run/mon.pid"
    fi


 Random hints:

 * To use fping.monitor you must install fping.
 
 * If you need a graphical interface, please install mon-client which contains 
   a simple cgi.