Description: Abstract This is the official manual for the Big Sister network monitor. This documentation is intended for guiding new users during their first steps setting up agent nodes, configuring health checks and getting the display server up and running.
Keywords: Big Sister, Bigsister, Network Monitor, Network Monitoring, Perl, GPL, Big Brother, manual, SNMP

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# BigSister

## Configuring and installing BigSister

### Thomas Aeby

### Didier Bringer

### Joerg Fritsch

### Alexander Kerr

1.5.1

July 2003

Revision History
Revision 1.0 | 11 December 2000 | tom
Initial release.
Revision 1.01 | March 2002 | dda
Docbook format
Revision 1.01 | March 2002 | dda
When describing commands, I tried to write arguments like in any Programmation Book ie command { mandatory args } [ optional arguments ] Skins for CGI
Revision 1.5 | August 2003 | jf
Done further work on the Docbook format. Introduced Big Sister logo. Introduced html chunks. Rewritten some parts in order to get them taylored to Big Sister rev. 0.98b3 and give the reader a better understanding.
Revision 1.5.1 | August 2003 | ak
Corrected english wording, grammar and style

Abstract

This is the official manual for the Big Sister network monitor. This documentation is intended for guiding new users during their first steps setting up agent nodes, configuring health checks and getting the display server up and running.

List of Figures

1.1. Big Sister Components
2.1. Host Aliases
2.2. Agent to server
3.1. Status Changes result in Alarms
3.2. Group hierarchy example

List of Tables

1.1. paths to files
3.1. Accepted keywords and function
3.2. Files used for Availability management
3.3. Output of the default statistics file
3.4. Accepted keywords and function
3.5. Some available skins

List of Examples

2.1. A simple uxmon-net configuration file
3.1. Example of refusing a status from certain machines
3.2. Example default values
3.3. Getting rid of unwanted status lights ("purples")
3.4. Example without name argument
3.5. Example with name argument
3.6. Example with special argument : clear
3.7. Example on cgi's skins
9. disk healthcheck: local and via the network (remote)
10.
11. Usage of the %skin statement

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