# The sysutils/monit port

## monit-5.4 – monitoring and managing daemons utility

## Description

    monit is an 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
     * Start, stop and restart of programs
     * Group- and manage groups of programs
     * Logging - syslog or own logfile
     * Configuration - comprehensive controlfile
     * Runtime and TCP/IP port checking (tcp and udp)
     * Unix domain socket checking
     * Process status and process timeout
     * Process memory usage and process cpu usage
     * Alert, stop or restart a process based on it's characteristics
     * Check the systems load average
     * MD5 checksum for programs started and stopped by monit
     * Alert notification for program timeout, restart,
       checksum, stop and resource error
     * Flexible and customizable email alert messages
     * Protocol verification. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP and NNTP
     * A http interface to make monit accessible from a Browser

WWW: http://www.mmonit.com/monit/

Categories:
  sysutils

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