NAME

sm_symond - Solstice SyMON process controller

SYNOPSIS

/opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/sm_symond [ -n ] [ -d debug-level ] [ -D AIL-debug-level ] [ -p output-level ] [ -P minutes ] [ -i intervals ]

AVAILABILITY

SUNWsymon

DESCRIPTION

sm_symond is a tool to manage symon processes. Its primary role is to start the symon agents, monitor those agents for crashes, and provide RPC information to clients that wish to access any of those agents.

The primary repository for agent data is the file /etc/opt/SUNWsymon/sm_symond.conf (see sm_symond.conf (4)).

When sm_symond is run, it first reads /etc/opt/SUNWsymon/sm_symond.conf to determine the local agents to be spawned. It then spawns those agents. If an entry indicates that an agent may exist on a remote system, symond will poll that system looking for another symond to get information on that agent.

Symond serves a hierarchy of information via RPC to any requesting client. Each agent should produce a hierarchy that is readable.

sm_symond is also responsible for looking at the auth_checker.tcl and auth_list.tcl scripts to determine if a Solstice SyMON user has access to the symon data.

OPTIONS

-n

Do NOT dissociate process and child agents from terminal. Leave stdin, stdout, stderr open for output.

-d

Debugging level for sm_symond. These values can be added together for combinations of debug output:

1=trace

2=callbacks

4=rpc

8=spawn info

16=debug access control

32=config file info

-D

Debugging level for AIL for hierarchy transport.

-p

Print hierarchy level:

1=nodes

5=nodes and prop

10=nodes, prop, and data

-P

Turn on profiling to dump after specified number of minutes.

-i

Sampling interval for checking if the agents are still alive.

FILES

/etc/opt/SUNWsymon/sm_symond.conf

list of agents for invocation.

SEE ALSO

sm_configd(1M), sm_egd (1M),sm_krd(1M), sm_logscand(1M), sm_symond.conf (4), symon(1)

NOTES

sm_symond can only be run by root.