[Mon-commit] mon/doc mon.8,1.4,1.5

[David N. <vi...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/mon/mon/doc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv29200

Modified Files:
	mon.8 
Log Message:
Clarified the meaning of some variables passed to alert scripts.
Added redistribute documentation.


Index: mon.8
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mon/mon/doc/mon.8,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -C2 -d -r1.4 -r1.5
*** mon.8	17 Apr 2005 07:42:27 -0000	1.4
--- mon.8	31 Jul 2005 15:49:23 -0000	1.5
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*** 284,294 ****
  .TP
  .B MON_LAST_SUMMARY
! The first line of the output from the last time the
! monitor exited.
  
  .TP
  .B MON_LAST_OUTPUT
! The entire output of the monitor from the last time it
! exited.
  
  .TP
--- 284,299 ----
  .TP
  .B MON_LAST_SUMMARY
! The first line of the output from the last time the monitor exited.
! This is not the summary of the current monitor run, but the previous
! one.  This may be used by an alert script to provide historical
! context in an alert.
  
  .TP
  .B MON_LAST_OUTPUT
! The entire output of the monitor from the last time it exited.  This
! is not the output of the current monitor run, but the previous one.
! This may be used by an alert script to provide historical context in
! an alert.
! 
  
  .TP
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*** 1181,1185 ****
  
  .TP
! .BI "dep_memory = " timeval
  If set, dep_memory will cause dependencies to continue to prevent
  alerts/monitoring for a period of time after the service returns to a
--- 1186,1190 ----
  
  .TP
! .BI "dep_memory " timeval
  If set, dep_memory will cause dependencies to continue to prevent
  alerts/monitoring for a period of time after the service returns to a
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*** 1191,1194 ****
--- 1196,1210 ----
  .IR timeval .
  
+ .TP
+ .BI redistribute " alert [arg...]"
+ A service may have one redistribute option, which is a special form of an
+ an alert definition.  This alert will be called on every service status
+ update, even sequential success status updates.  This can be used to
+ integrate Mon with another monitoring system, or to link together multiple
+ Mon servers via an alert script that generates Mon traps.  See the "ALERT
+ PROGRAMS" section above for a list of the parameters mon will pass
+ automatically to alert programs.
+ 
+ 
  .SS "Period Definitions"