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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Fri Jan 27 10:37:43 2023 +0100 (21 months ago) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/monitorix/description.txt Fri Jan 27 10:37:43 2023 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ 1.4 +Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool 1.5 +designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. 1.6 +It has been created to be used under production Linux/UNIX servers, 1.7 +but due to its simplicity and small size can be used on embedded 1.8 +devices as well. 1.9 + 1.10 +It consists mainly of two programs: a collector, called monitorix, 1.11 +which is a Perl daemon that is started automatically like any other 1.12 +system service, and a CGI script called monitorix.cgi. 1.13 +Monitorix includes its own HTTP server built in (which is listening 1.14 +by default on port 8080/TCP) to see the statistics graphs, so you 1.15 +aren't forced to install a third-party web server to use it. 1.16 +Just point your browser at http://localhost:8080/monitorix. 1.17 + 1.18 +All of its development was initially created for monitoring Red Hat, 1.19 +Fedora and CentOS Linux systems, so this project was made keeping 1.20 +in mind these type of distributions. 1.21 +Today it runs on different GNU/Linux distributions and even in other 1.22 +UNIX systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. 1.23 + 1.24 +It is currently in active development adding new features, new graphs 1.25 +and correcting bugs in the attempt to offer a great tool for daily 1.26 +systems administration of any professional server. 1.27 + 1.28 +Monitorix is an open source project and, just like any other open 1.29 +source project, anyone can contribute with his own time and knowledge.