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
DESCRIPTION
CAPABILITIES
SEE ALSO
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