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In this section, the various modes of running MonAMI are discussed. In most production environments, MonAMI runs as a single detached process (a daemon), launched from the system start-up scripts (the init scripts), as described in Section 2.3, “Running in production environment”. Other modes of running monamid, such as testing a new configuration, are also discussed.
The MonAMI application (monamid)
accepts only a limited number of options as most of the
behaviour is controlled by the configuration file
(/home/paul/MonAMI-test-install/etc/monami.conf). The format of
this configuration file is described in a later section of this
guide (Chapter 3, Configuring MonAMI).
The following options are available for the monamid application.
monamid [-f] [-h] [-v] [-V] [--pid-file file]
-f or --no-daemon
run in the foreground, i.e. do not detach from current
terminal. Unless explicitly configured in
monami.conf, logging output will be
sent to stdout
or stderr.
-h or --helpdisplay a brief synopsis of available options.
-v or --verbose
show more of the logging information. MonAMI aims to be a
quiet application. By default it will only report
problems that are from extern resources or that are due to
configuration that is inconsistent. With the
-v option specified extra information is
reported that, whilst not necessarily reporting an error,
is indicative of potentially abnormal activity. This is
often useful when MonAMI is not behaving as expected.
This option can be repeated to include extra debugging information; information useful when tracking down programming problems within MonAMI.
-V or --versiondisplay the version of MonAMI and exit.
--pid-file file
store the PID of
monamid in
file, creating
file if it does not already
exist.