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# mon
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mon is a general-purpose scheduler and alert management tool used for monitoring service availability and triggering alerts upon failure detection.
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mon was designed to be open and extensible in the sense that it supports arbitrary monitoring facilities and alert methods via a common interface, all of which are easily implemented with programs in C, Perl, shell, etc., SNMP traps, and special mon traps.
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mon views resource monitoring as two separate tasks: the testing of a condition, and triggering an action upon failure. mon was designed to implement the testing and action-taking tasks as separate, stand-alone programs. mon is fundamentally a scheduler which executes the monitors (each test a specific condition), and calls the appropriate alerts if the monitor fails.
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The decision to invoke an alert is governed by logic which offers various "squelch" features and dependencies, all of which are configurable by the user.
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Monitors and alerts are not a part of the core mon server, even though the distribution comes with a handful of them to get you started.
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This means that if a new service needs monitoring, or if a new alert is necessary, the mon server does not need to be changed.
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This makes mon easily extensible.
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