monitorix - a lightweight system monitoring tool
monitorix -c configfile [-p pidfile]
[-d none | graph[,graph] | all] [-v] [-n]
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.
- -c configfile
- The default location of the main configuration file varies depending on
the operating system:
Linux:
/etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf
FreeBSD:
/usr/local/etc/monitorix.conf
Extra configuration files can be placed in
/etc/monitorix/conf.d, they will be loaded right after the main
configuration file (overriding previous options).
- -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.
- -n
- This argument will prevent Monitorix from daemonizing, and hence, forcing
it to run in foreground. This is specially useful for debugging
purposes.
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.
The following set of the files are created on every startup:
- <base_dir>/cgi/monitorix.conf.path
- Stores the path of configfile.
- <base_dir>/cgi/monitorix.hplog
- Stores the output of hplog command.
- <base_dir>/index.html
- HTML main page.
Monitorix is written by Jordi Sanfeliu
<jordi@fibranet.cat>
Copyright © 2005-2020 Jordi Sanfeliu
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).