$Id: README.variables,v 1.1.1.1 2004/06/09 05:18:06 trockij Exp $

THIS FILE IS PROBABLY OUTDATED


The following are global variables:

maxkeep
    The maximum lines of alert or failure history to retain.

For each service, the following variables are maintained by the server,
and are available from the "status" command:

_failure_count
    The number of failures since the start of monitoring.

_start_of_monitor
    The time that the monitoring of this particular service started,
    as reported by the time(2) system call.

_alert_count
    The number of alerts triggered since _start_of_monitor, in time(2) format.

_last_failure
    The time(2) of the last failure that was detected.

_last_success
    The time(2) of the last success for this service.

_last_output
    The output of the last monitor command (not the current).

_current_output
    The output of the current monitor command.

_timer
    The number of seconds left before the monitor is invoked again.

_last_opstatus
    The _op_status before the dependency code set it to STAT_DEPEND

_op_status
    STAT_FAIL		the monitor returned a failure
    STAT_OK		the monitor returned a success
    STAT_COLDSTART	a coldstart trap was received
    STAT_WARMSTART	a warmstart trap was received
    STAT_LINKDOWN	a linkdown trap was received
    STAT_UNKOWN		unknown (reserved for stupid things)
    STAT_TIMEOUT	a trap timeout occurred
    STAT_UNTESTED	this service has not yet been tested
    STAT_DEPEND		this service has been marked by the depend routines
    STAT_WARN		a warning state
