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NAME
moncmd - send commands to mon daemon and show the results.
SYNOPSIS
moncmd [-a] [-d] [-l username] [-f file] [-s server] [-p port] [com-
mand]
DESCRIPTION
moncmd sends commands to the mon server.
OPTIONS
-a Authenticate with the server.
-d enable debugging, which is the same as -s localhost.
-f file
Read and execute commands from file.
-l username
Supply username as the username while authenticating to the
server.
-s server
Connect to server.
-p port
Use TCP port port when connecting to the server, instead of the
default of 32777.
MONITOR HOST
moncmd will use the host specified by the -s parameter as the server.
If there is no -s parameter it will use the host specified in the MON-
HOST environment variable. If there is no host in either of these
locations it will exit with an error.
BATCH OPERATION
If no commands are supplied to moncmd on the command line, then com-
mands will be taken from either standard input, or from the file speci-
fied by the -f parameter. If standard input is connected to a TTY and
the -a option is supplied, then it will prompt for a password. If the
-a option is supplied without the -f option and standard input is not a
TTY, then the username and password are read from standard input using
the syntax "USER=username" and "PASS=password". The remaining input
lines are interpreted as commands to send to the server. moncmd will
not take usernames or passwords from a file, for obvious security rea-
sons.
If the username is neither supplied by the -l parameter or through
standard input, it is taken from the effective user ID of the current
process.
COMMANDS
The following is a list of the commands that the server understands.
enable | disable service group servicename
Enables/disables alerts for group and servicename. All disabled
states are automatically saved to the state file, which may
optionally be re-loaded upon restarting or initial startup of
the server.
ack group service comment
Acknowledge a failure condition. This will store comment in the
state of service (queryable by doing a list opstatus command),
and will surppress further alerts for the service. Once the ser-
vice returns to a non-failure state, then the acknowledgement is
reset.
version
Displays the protocol version in the form of "version num" where
num is the protocol version number.
list aliases
Lists aliases.
list aliasgroups
Lists alias groups.
savestate
Save the state of the server. Currently, the only state which is
saved is the host/watches/services which are disabled.
loadstate
Load the state of the server. Currently, the only state which is
loaded is the host/watches/services which are disabled.
enable | disable host hostname
Enables/disables host hostname in all groups. When the monitor
is called, this hostname will not be included in the list of
hostnames sent to the monitor. If a group has only one hostname
in it, then the enable | disable watch command should be used
instead.
enable | disable watch watchgroup
Enables/disables an entire watch for watchgroup, as defined in
the configuration file. Disabling a watch not only stops alerts
from happening, but it stops the actual monitor processes from
being scheduled.
reset Resets the server, forcing it to re-read the configuration file,
kill off currently running monitors, restart all monitoring, and
reset all counters. This command is only accessible if moncmd
connects from the host which is running the mon server.
reset stopped
Resets the server and immediately stops the scheduler. This is
an atomic version of the commands reset and stop.
reload auth
Reloads the auth.cf file in order to incorporate any new
changes. The auth table is completely re-generated; it is not
merged.
reset keepstate
If the word "keepstate" comes after the reset command, the
server will do a "loadstate" right after the reset, before the
scheduler kicks back in.
stop Stops the scheduler, but continues to allow client connections.
start Re-starts the scheduler after it has been stopped.
test monitor group servicename
Triggers a test for group and service immediately by setting the
serviceâs countdown timer to zero.
test (alert | upalert | startupalert) group servicename retval period
Triggers a test alert, upalert, or startupalert for group and
servicename. retval is the integer exit value to pass to the
alert via the MON_RETVAL environment variable. You must also
specify the period as it appears in the configuration file. All
alerts of the given type in that period will be triggered, but
the alert will not be logged.
servertime
Returns the current time of the server as seconds since Jan 1,
1970.
list group groupname
Lists the members of group groupname.
list descriptions
List the descriptions of each service, as defined in the config-
uration file. If a service description is undefined, then it is
not listed.
list alerthist
Lists the last alarms triggered for each service of each watch
group, in addition to the summary output. The number of alerts
to keep in memory is bounded by the maxkeep variable, config-
urable on the mon command line at startup, and expandable with
the set command during runtime.
list failurehist
Lists the last failures, in addition to the summary output.
This is also limited by the maxkeep variable.
list opstatus
Lists operational status of all services. Reports whether the
last time a service group was tested resulted in success or
failure. The output is:
group service untested
group service time timeleft succeeded
group service time timeleft failed output
where output is the first line of output from the monitor script
which failed, time is the time that the condition was last
noticed in time(2) format, and timeleft is the number of seconds
left until the service is tested again.
list successes
Generates the same output as the list opstatus command, but only
shows the services that have succeeded the last time they were
tested.
list failures
Generates the same output as the list opstatus command, but only
shows the services that have failed the last time they were
tested.
list disabled
Lists all hosts and services which have been disabled by the
disable host|service command.
list pids
Shows the currently active watch groups/services along with
their process IDs, and it process ID of the server daemon.
list watch
Lists all watches and services.
list state
Lists the state of the scheduler.
set group service variable value
Sets a variable to value. Useful for temporarily changing an
interval or alertevery value. Be careful, because this can just
set any value in the %watch hash, and some values that are spec-
ified in the configuration file like "10m" or "35s" are con-
verted and stored as just plain integer seconds (e.g. "alertev-
ery").
get group service variable
Displays the value of group service variable.
set variable value
Assigns value to the global variable variable.
set opstatus group service value
Sets the opstatus value for group and service.
get variable
Shows the value of global variable variable.
term Terminates the server. This command is only accessible if mon-
cmd connects from the host which is running the mon server.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
MONSERVER
The hostname of the server which runs the mon process.
MONPORT
The port number to connect to.
SEE ALSO
mon(8)
BUGS
Report bugs to the email address below.
AUTHOR
Jim Trocki <trockij@arctic.org>
Linux $Date: 2005/04/17 07:42:27 $ moncmd(1)
