TESTERS(1)

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This list might be outdated!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

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

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AUTHORS
Thomas Aeby, Didier Bringer, Joerg Fritsch, Alexander Kerr.