monitoring.5

NAME

monitoring - a table in the xCAT database.

SYNOPSIS

monitoring Attributes: name, nodestatmon, comments, disable

DESCRIPTION

Controls what external monitoring tools xCAT sets up and uses. Entries should be added and removed from this table using the provided xCAT commands monstart and monstop.

monitoring Attributes:

name

The name of the monitoring plug-in module. The plug-in must be put in /lib/perl/xCAT_monitoring/. See the man page for monstart for details.

nodestatmon

Specifies if the monitoring plug-in is used to feed the node status to the xCAT cluster. Any one of the following values indicates “yes”: y, Y, yes, Yes, YES, 1. Any other value or blank (default), indicates “no”.

comments

Any user-written notes.

disable

Set to ‘yes’ or ‘1’ to comment out this row.

SEE ALSO

nodels(1), chtab(8), tabdump(8), tabedit(8)