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monit-5.35.2p0

monitoring and managing daemons utility

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Description

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 * UNIX domain socket and IP port checking (TCP and UDP) * Process status and process timeout * Process cpu and memory usage * Process zombie check * Check the system's load average * Check a file or directory timestamp * Flexible and customizable email alert messages * Protocol verification - HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, SSH, MySQL, RSYNC, LDAPv3, WebSocket and more * An HTTP interface with TLS support to make monit accessible from a web browser

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/monit
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Caspar Schutijser <caspar@schutijser.com>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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Direct dependencies

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