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SYSMOND(man)		      System Administration		    SYSMOND(man)

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/sys-
	    mon.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 struc-
	    ture.

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@puck.nether.net

Version 0.90.12 		   19 Feb 2001			    SYSMOND(man)

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