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diff --git a/net/xymon/DESCR b/net/xymon/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5a7f8358155 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/xymon/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Xymon is the successor to (rename of) Hobbit which was the successor +to the bbgen toolkit, which had been available as an add-on to Big Brother +since late 2002. + +Xymon monitors your hosts, your network services, and anything else +you configure it to do via extensions. Xymon will +periodically generate requests to network services - http, ftp, +smtp and so on - and record if the service is responding as +expected. Through the use of agents installed on the servers, +you can also monitor local disk utilisation, logfiles and processes. |