moomps - Modular Object Oriented Multi-Purpose Service all-purpose monitoring daemon

moomps [OPTION]... [DIRECTORY|CONFIGURATIONFILE]...

Moomps is a monitoring daemon which works using dashboard files created by the moodss (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) graphical application. The dashboard files contain the definition of thresholds, data cells to record, definitions of formulas, ... Thresholds, when crossed, create messages in the system log, possibly trigger the sending of email alert messages and the execution of user-defined scripts.

It is also possible to use a database as a storage mean, so that data history is for example available for presentations and graphs, via commonly available spreadsheet software. This manual is very succinct and is to be used as a quick reminder for the user. Complete and detailed documentation can be found in the accompanying moomps.htm, database.htm, ... HTML documentations. Moomps is usually started as a daemon, using the related operating system utilities. You can also start moomps from a terminal using the options described below.

After the eventual options described above, specify any number of moodss generated configuration files (.moo files) or directories. For a directory, moomps will load all .moo files in that directory as if they were directly passed on the command line.

--debug

module errors verbose reporting

-f, --foreground

run in foreground as opposed to daemon mode

-h, --help

display some help text and exit

-m, --mailto

send an email to specified address at startup

-p, --pid-file

file containing the daemon process ID

-p, --poll-files-time

loaded files monitoring poll time in seconds

-r

preferences file name (to override the /etc/moomps/rc default)

--version

output version information and exit

Please see the moomps.htm HTML documentation.

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