TESTTAB
Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: 16 April 1993 ;
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testtab - AgentMon subagent capability database
SYNOPSIS
$ENLIGHTEN/config/testtab.{HOSTNAME}
DESCRIPTION
testtab is the capability database for the AgentMon subagent.
The format is similar to other Unix system administrative files but
is simplier to use.
AgentMon accesses this database when it starts up and frequantly checks it
for any changes.
Each entry in the file describes one test that AgentMon is capable of performing.
Test may be dynamically added and deleted without having to manually restart
AgentMon.
At time of installation, this file may not yet exit.
When no
testtab
file exist, all default tests and all test capability defaults are assumed and
the testtab file is automatically created.
Each entry in this file represents a
test description .
A
test description
consist of a line containing the test name followed by additional lines
containing a list of keywords and, possibly, values.
There are three types of keywords (capabliities) :
- Boolean
-
Capabilities that have only two states (on/off, enable/disable, etc) are
specified by simply specifing that capability name (to activate it), or
by prepending the name with an exclaimation mark ("!") to deactivate it.
- Numerics and Strings
-
A capability that requires a numeric (or alphabetic) is specified by
separating the capability name and value with an equal sign.
All capabilities are delimited by colons (":") .
Values that must contain a colon must be escaped with a backslash.
Any test description line not terminated with a backslash is assumed to be
the last line of that test description.
CAPABILITIES
Name Type Default Comment
int | 60 | min time between alarms. | | | | | |
notify |
mailer |
|
|
command |
alarm condition occurs. |
log |
|
!log |
|
delta |
|
|
|
|
|
If zero, always logs |
pep |
age |
|
|
|
|
high |
low |
+rate |
|
-rate |
|
+jump |
-jump |
testname |
|
regx_ |
|
units |
|
|
NOTES
Most test measure integer values. Some measure floating point values.
Set point parameters should be given by using the same variable type as the
test result. However, failure to comply will only result in rounding errors.
The
jump
and
rate
thresholds compare the current test value with the last measured value.
Therefore, they are compairing change over time (testfreq) .
The values for the
units
capability are built-in and cannot be changed.
It is shown here for completeness as AgentMon includes this field whenever
it re-writes the
testtab
file and whenever it is started with the
-x
command line option.
If the notify field is set to "nobody", i.e. :notify=nobody:,
then no email will be sent.
SEE ALSO
printcap(5) termcap(5) disktab(5) acucap(5)
Index
- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- CAPABILITIES
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- SEE ALSO
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