[ddp] monit : A utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs

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Fri May 26 12:00:12 CEST 2006


Hello,

Today, I'm happy to present you the Debian package monit, which is part
of the admin section, and maintained by Stefan Alfredsson
<alfs at debian.org>. 

This package contains : A utility for monitoring and managing daemons
or similar programs.

monit is a utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar
programs running on a Unix system. It will start specified programs
if they are not running and restart programs not responding.

monit supports:
 * Daemon mode - poll programs at a specified interval
 * Monitoring modes - active, passive or manual
 * Start, stop and restart of programs
 * Group and manage groups of programs
 * Process dependency definition
 * Logging to syslog or own logfile
 * Configuration - comprehensive controlfile
 * Runtime and TCP/IP port checking (tcp and udp)
 * SSL support for port checking
 * Unix domain socket checking
 * Process status and process timeout
 * Process cpu usage
 * Process memory usage
 * Process zombie check
 * Check the systems load average
 * Check a file or directory timestamp
 * Alert, stop or restart a process based on its characteristics
 * MD5 checksum for programs started and stopped by monit
 * Alert notification for program timeout, restart, checksum, stop
   resource and timestamp error
 * Flexible and customizable email alert messages
 * Protocol verification. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, SSH, DWP,
   LDAPv2 and LDAPv3
 * An http interface with optional SSL support to make monit
   accessible from a webbrowser


Package homepage     :
 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/monit

Package bug homepage :
 http://bugs.debian.org/monit

Package QA homepage  :
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/monit

Have fun with Debian packages !

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