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monitoring.5
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NAME
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\ **monitoring**\  - a table in the xCAT database.


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SYNOPSIS
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\ **monitoring Attributes:**\   \ *name*\ , \ *nodestatmon*\ , \ *comments*\ , \ *disable*\ 


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DESCRIPTION
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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.


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monitoring Attributes:
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\ **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.
 



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SEE ALSO
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\ **nodels(1)**\ , \ **chtab(8)**\ , \ **tabdump(8)**\ , \ **tabedit(8)**\