[Devil-linux-develop] [ devil-linux-Feature Requests-864427 ] add mon

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Feature Requests item #864427, was opened at 2003-12-22 09:11
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Category: Packages
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: add mon

Initial Comment:
http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/

mon is a general-purpose scheduler and alert management
tool used for monitoring service availability and
triggering alerts upon failure detection. mon was
designed to be open and extensible in the sense that it
supports arbitrary monitoring facilities and alert
methods via a common interface, all of which are easily
implemented with programs in C, Perl, shell, etc., SNMP
traps, and special mon traps.

mon views resource monitoring as two separate tasks:
the testing of a condition, and triggering an action
upon failure. mon was designed to implement the testing
and action-taking tasks as separate, stand-alone
programs. mon is fundamentally a scheduler which
executes the monitors (each test a specific condition),
and calls the appropriate alerts if the monitor fails.
The decision to invoke an alert is governed by logic
which offers various "squelch" features and
dependencies, all of which are configurable by the user.

Monitors and alerts are not a part of the core mon
server, even though the distribution comes with a
handful of them to get you started. This means that if
a new service needs monitoring, or if a new alert is
necessary, the mon server does not need to be changed.
This makes mon easily extensible. 

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