Keywords: Big Sister, Bigsister, Network Monitor, Network Monitoring, Perl, GPL, Big Brother, manual, SNMP

testers
Prev | Healthcheck Command Reference | Next

## Name

testers — query healthcheck for available features, produce XML and static manpage

## Synopsis

`testers` [-f `feature1 ...` ] [-d `device` ] [-t `name of healthcheck/test` ] [-F `xml|man` ] [known|tests|man]

## Description

The `testers` command is available as of Big Sister rev. 0.98. The `testers` command can be used to query healthchecks for the syntax and possibilities available on the specified device. The standart output format is ascii. Depending on the software installed on your system, `testers` can also produce xml-formated output or preformated manpages. This is useful for the Big Sister Documentation Project.

The bells and whistles coming with every healthcheck are mainly dependant on the device -d which is beeing tested, the operation system (the feature option -f currently refers to the OS) and whether a healthcheck is carried out using a local installet uxmon agent or remote.

Example 9. disk healthcheck: local and via the network (remote)

The `disk` healthcheck monitors the free disk space.

The disk healthcheck is a good example of featuresets differing with local and remote healthchecks: the `df` command can be used if the healthcheck is carried out by a local installed uxmon agent. If the free diskspace needs to be checked over the network by a remote uxmon agent, SNMP and the Host-MIB are used.

The fstype option is only available with local installed agents; -not via SNMP and not with every operation system. Therefore the output of:

    ./testers -f local -d computer -t disk

and

    ./testers -f remote -d computer -t disk

are different.

### Known devices, features and healthchecks

This list might be outdated! You can get a more recent list when issueing the `./testers` command on your system without any options.

Device types [ -d ]

  computer

Feature Names [ -f ]

  aix

  bsd

  hpux

  linux

  local

  macos

  netware

  remote

  solaris

  sysv

  unix

Healthchecks [ -t ]

  disk

  etherport

  ftp

  http

  ica

  ident

  imap

  load

  network

  nntp

  ntp

  pop3

  procs

  procsname

  realhttp

  smtp

  snmpvar

  ssh

  tcp

  telnet

  users

#### Producing xml and manpages

By using the `-F` option you can either generate an xml formated manpage

    testers [your arguments go here] -F xml man

or complete preformated manpages which can be copied into your system's manpath

    testers [your arguments go here] -F man man

:

Prev | Up | Next
Healthcheck Command Reference | Home | cpuload