DebianHelp: Monitoring Services using Mon in Debian

“mon is a general-purpose scheduler and alert management tool
used for monitoring service availability and triggering alerts upon
failure detection. mon was designed to be open and extensible in
the sense that it supports arbitrary monitoring facilities and
alert methods via a common interface, all of which are easily
implemented with programs in C, Perl, shell, etc., SNMP traps, and
special mon traps…”

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