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diff --git a/sysutils/monitorix/pkg-descr b/sysutils/monitorix/pkg-descr index f3d3fee44f21..7667fb787a87 100644 --- a/sysutils/monitorix/pkg-descr +++ b/sysutils/monitorix/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,22 @@ -Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool -designed to monitorize as many services as possible. At this time it -monitors from the CPU load and temperatures to the users using the system. -Network devices activity, network services demand and even the devices' -interrupt activity are also monitored, and more. The current status of any -corporate server with Monitorix installed can be accessed via a web browser. +Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed +to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been +created to be used under production UNIX/Linux servers, but due to its +simplicity and small size may also be used to monitor embedded devices as +well. + +It mainly consists mainly of two programs: a collector, called monitorix, which +is a Perl daemon that is started automatically like any other system service, +and a CGI script called monitorix.cgi. + +Every time 'monitorix' is started it reads the configuration file from the path +specified in the command line (using the -c option), and once checked, it +creates the 'index.html' file that will act as the Monitorix main page. + +It also creates a file called '$BASE_DIR/cgi-bin/monitorix.conf.path' that +includes the absolute path of the configuration file. This file will be read +by 'monitorix.cgi' to determine the exact location of the configuration file. +If for any reason it is unable to locate this file, Monitorix will try two +alternative locations: '/etc/monitorix.conf' and +'/usr/local/etc/monitorix.conf'. WWW: http://www.monitorix.org/ |