NAME

       cf-monitord - monitoring daemon for CFEngine

SYNOPSIS

       cf-monitord [OPTION]...  [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       cf-monitord  is the monitoring daemon for CFEngine. It samples probes defined in policy code and attempts
       to learn the normal system state based on current and  past  observations.  Current  estimates  are  made
       available  as  special  variables  (e.g.  $(mon.av_cpu)) to cf-agent, which may use them to inform policy
       decisions.

OPTIONS

       --help, -h
              Print the help message

       --debug, -d
              Enable debugging output

       --verbose, -v
              Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent

       --dry-run, -n
              All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept

       --version, -V
              Output the version of the software

       --no-lock, -K
              Ignore system lock

       --file, -f value
              Specify an alternative input file than the default

       --inform, -I
              Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired

       --diagnostic, -x
              Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)

       --no-fork, -F
              Run process in foreground, not as a daemon

       --histograms, -H
              Ignored for backward compatibility

       --tcpdump, -T
              Interface with tcpdump if available to collect data about network

       --color, -C value
              Enable colorized output. Possible values: 'always',  'auto',  'never'.  If  option  is  used,  the
              default value is 'auto'

       --timestamp, -l
              Log timestamps on each line of log output

CFENGINE

       CFEngine   provides  automated  configuration  management  of  large-scale  computer  systems.  A  system
       administrator describes the desired state of a system using CFEngine policy code.  The  program  cf-agent
       reads  policy  code and attempts to bring the current system state to the desired state described. Policy
       code is downloaded by cf-agent from a cf-serverd daemon. The daemon cf-execd is responsible  for  running
       cf-agent periodically.
       Documentation for CFEngine is available at http://cfengine.com/documentation/.

PROMISE THEORY

       CFEngine  is built on principles from promise theory, proposed by Mark Burgess in 2004. Promise theory is
       a model of voluntary cooperation between individual,  autonomous  actors  or  agents  who  publish  their
       intentions  to one another in the form of promises. A promise is a declaration of intent whose purpose is
       to increase the recipient's certainty about a claim of past, present or future behaviour. For  a  promise
       to  increase  certainty,  the  recipient  needs to trust the promiser, but trust can also be built on the
       verification that previous promises have been kept,  thus  trust  plays  a  symbiotic  relationship  with
       promises.
       For an introduction to promise theory, please see http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3294/

AVAILABILITY

       cf-monitord is part of CFEngine.
       Binary packages may be downloaded from http://cfengine.com/downloads/.
       The source code is available at http://github.com/cfengine/

BUGS

       Please see the public bug-tracker at http://bug.cfengine.com/.
       GitHub pull-requests may be submitted to http://github.com/cfengine/core/.

SEE ALSO

       cf-promises(8), cf-agent(8), cf-serverd(8), cf-execd(8), cf-monitord(8), cf-runagent(8), cf-key(8)

AUTHOR

       Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS