monitorix(8) - Linux man page

Name

monitorix

Synopsis

monitorix -c configfile [-p pidfile] [-d none | graph[,graph] | all] [-v]

Description

This Perl daemon starts the main Monitorix process, which gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information in a set of RRD files.

Options

-c configfile: The default location of the configuration file varies depending on the operating system:

Linux: /etc/monitorix.conf
FreeBSD: /usr/local/etc/monitorix.conf

-p pidfile: Stores the daemon's process ID into the specified file.
-d none | graph[,graph] | all: Logs more information about what monitorix is doing internally. The keys reflect if the data collected must be displayed on each case. If all is defined, the data collected of all enabled graphs will be shown. If none is defined no data collected will be shown. Finally it is also possible to define a comma-separated list of graph names from which show their data collected.
For a reference of all graph names check the option @GRAPH_NAME in the monitorix.conf configuration file.
-v: Displays version information.

Signals

On receipt of a SIGHUP, monitorix will close and reopen its log file. This is useful in scripts which rotate and age log files.

Note that the configuration file is not re-read. I plan to change this in future versions.

Files

The following is the set of the special files created on every startup:

$BASE_DIR/cgi-bin/monitorix.conf.path: stores the path of configfile.
$BASE_DIR/cgi-bin/monitorix.hplog: stores the output of hplog.
$BASE_DIR/index.html: HTML main page.

Author

Monitorix is written by Jordi Sanfeliu <jordi@fibranet.cat>