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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@
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mon is a tool for monitoring the availability of services, and sending alerts
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on prescribed events. Services are defined as anything tested by a "monitor"
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program, which can be something as simple as pinging a system, or as complex
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as analyzing the results of an application-level transaction. Alerts are
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actions such as sending emails, making submissions to ticketing systems, or
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triggering resource fail-over in a high-availability cluster.
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A design goal of mon is to maintain simplicity and provide the right
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abstractions for monitoring so that the system can be scalable, easy to use,
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and trivial to extend for the widest variety of applications. The learning
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curve is very shallow for initial installation, configuration, and
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customization. Monitors and alerts are simple to write using any language, and
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simple to incorporate into a site configuration. Reporting and control
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functionality is easily customized with the aid of a TCP-based protocol
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interface.
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