utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs
 monit is a 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
  * Monitoring modes - active, passive or manual
  * Start, stop and restart of programs
  * Group and manage groups of programs
  * Process dependency definition
  * Logging to syslog or own logfile
  * Configuration - comprehensive controlfile
  * Runtime and TCP/IP port checking (tcp and udp)
  * SSL support for port checking
  * Unix domain socket checking
  * Process status and process timeout
  * Process cpu usage
  * Process memory usage
  * Process zombie check
  * Check the systems load average
  * Check a file or directory timestamp
  * Alert, stop or restart a process based on its characteristics
  * MD5 checksum for programs started and stopped by monit
  * Alert notification for program timeout, restart, checksum, stop
    resource and timestamp error
  * Flexible and customizable email alert messages
  * Protocol verification. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, SSH, DWP,
    LDAPv2 and LDAPv3
  * An http interface with optional SSL support to make monit
    accessible from a webbrowser
<a href='/doc/monit/'>Manual and Help Documents</a>