| Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, |
| files, directories, filesystems and network services on a Unix system. |
| Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute |
| meaningful causal actions in error situations. |
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| monit supports: |
| * Daemon mode - poll services at a specified interval |
| * Group and manage groups of services, service dependencies |
| * Logging - syslog or own logfile |
| * Alert, start, stop and restart of services based on it's characteristics |
| * MD5 and SHA1 checksums |
| * Runtime Unix socket and TCP/IP port checking (tcp and udp) |
| * Process status, timeout, memory and cpu usage, etc. |
| * Filesystem usage monitoring (inodes and space) |
| * File monitoring (timestamp, checksum, permission, owner, etc.) |
| * Directory monitoring (timestamp, permission, owner, etc.) |
| * Remote network services monitoring (ping, response time, protocol, etc.) |
| * System load average monitoring |
| * Flexible and customizable email alert messages and notifications |
| * Protocol verification such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, NTP, etc. |
| * A HTTP interface with XML output option |
| and many more features :) |
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| WWW: http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/ |
