Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. (unofficial mirror)
QUICK START
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This readme serves as a quick start, please use `man monit' for
documentation on the program.
Installation:
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- ./configure
- make
- make install
- man monit
This will install Monit and the man-file in /usr/local/bin and
/usr/local/man/man1 respectively. If you want another location than
/usr/local, run configure with the prefix options, like so:
./configure --prefix=<dir>
Notes:
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- This directory contains an example Monit control file, called
monitrc. Please read it and use it as a starting point when you
write your own Monit control file.
- Monit will probably work on most Unix systems. However, Monit is
tested and known to compile and operate on: Darwin, Linux, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris.
License Notes:
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the file
COPYING accompanying the Software for details.
Questions and support:
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If you have questions or comments about the software or documentation
please subscribe to the Monit general mailing list and post your
questions there.
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
You can also look in the mailing list archive for answers:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monit-general/