XYMONLAUNCH(8) System Manager's Manual XYMONLAUNCH(8) NAME xymonlaunch - Master program to launch other Xymon programs SYNOPSIS xymonlaunch [options] DESCRIPTION xymonlaunch(8) is the main program that controls the execution and schedul- ing of all of the components in the Xymon system. xymonlaunch allows the administrator to add, remove or change the set of Xymon applications and extensions without restarting Xymon - xymonlaunch will automatically notice any changes in the set of tasks, and change the scheduling of activities accordingly. xymonlaunch also allows the administrator to setup specific logfiles for each component of the Xymon system, instead of getting output from all com- ponents logged to a single file. OPTIONS --env=FILENAME Loads the environment from FILENAME before starting other tools. The environment defined by FILENAME is the default, it can be over- ridden by the ENVFILE option in tasks.cfg(5) --config=FILENAME This option defines the file that xymonlaunch scans for tasks it must launch. A description of this file is in tasks.cfg(5) If not specified, files at /etc/tasks.cfg, /etc/xymon/tasks.cfg, and /etc/xymon-client/clientlaunch.cfg are searched for, as well as ~/server/etc/tasks.cfg. --log=FILENAME Defines the logfile where xymonlaunch logs information about fail- ures to launch tasks and other data about the operation of xymon- launch. Logs from individual tasks are defined in the tasks.cfg file. By default this is logged to stdout. --pidfile=FILENAME Filename which xymonlaunch saves its own process-ID to. Commonly used by automated start/stop scripts. --verbose Logs the launch of all tasks to the logfile. Note that the logfile may become quite large if you enable this. --dump Just dump the contents of the tasks.cfg file after parsing it. Used for debugging. --debugEnable debugging output while running. --no-daemon xymonlaunch normally detaches from the controlling tty and runs as a background task. This option keeps it running in the foreground. STARTING TASKS xymonlaunch will read the configuration file and start all of the tasks listed there. If a task completes abnormally (i.e. terminated by a signal or with a non- zero exit status), then xymonlaunch will attempt to restart it 5 times. If it still will not run, then the task is disabled for 10 minutes. This will be logged to the xymonlaunch logfile. If the configuration file changes, xymonlaunch will re-read it and notice any changes. If a running task was removed from the configuration, then the task is stopped. If a new task was added, it will be started. If the com- mand used for a task changed, or it was given a new environment definition file, or the logfile was changed, then the task is stopped and restarted with the new definition. SEE ALSO tasks.cfg(5), xymon(7) Xymon Version 4.3.30: 4 Sep 2019 XYMONLAUNCH(8)
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