simplemonitor - Monitor hosts status and network connectivity
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Description
simplemonitor monitors hosts (disk space, load average, services, HTTP availability and much more) and
network connectivity (based on ping replies).
This manual page is for the simplemonitor executable options. The full documentation for how to add
monitors and alerters can be found in /usr/share/doc/simplemonitor/html.
Name
simplemonitor - Monitor hosts status and network connectivity
Options
-h,--help
Show help and exit
-pPIDFILE,--pidfilePIDFILE
Write PID into PIDFILE
-N,--no-network
Disable network listening socket (if enabled in config)
-fCONFIG,--configCONFIG
Configuration file (this is the main config; monitors.ini is also needed (default filename))
Output Controls
-v,--verbose
Alias for --log-level=info
-q,--quiet
Alias for --log-level=critical
-d,--debug
Alias for --log-level=debug
-lLOGLEVEL,--log-levelLOGLEVEL
Log level: critical, error, warn, info, debug
-C,--no-colour,--no-color
Do not colourise log output
--no-timestamps
Do not prefix log output with timestamps
See Also
Full documentation in /usr/share/doc/simplemonitor/htmlSIMPLEMONITOR(1)
Synopsis
simplemonitor[OPTIONS]
Test And Debug Tools
-t,--test
Test config and exit
-l,--one-shot
Run the monitors once only, without alerting. Require monitors without "fail" in the name, to
succeed. Exit zero or non-zero accordingly
--loopsLOOPS
Number of iterations to run before exiting
--dump-known-resources
Print out loaded Monitor, Alerter and Logger types
