NAME¶

simplemonitor - Monitor hosts status and network connectivity

SYNOPSIS¶

simplemonitor [OPTIONS]

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.

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

Show help and exit

-p PIDFILE, --pidfile PIDFILE

Write PID into PIDFILE

-N, --no-network

Disable network listening socket (if enabled in config)

-f CONFIG, --config CONFIG

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

-l LOGLEVEL, --log-level LOGLEVEL

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

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

--loops LOOPS

Number of iterations to run before exiting

--dump-known-resources

Print out loaded Monitor, Alerter and Logger types

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the BSD-3-clause.

SEE ALSO¶

Full documentation in /usr/share/doc/simplemonitor/html