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NAME
kcmond - EMS Kernel Tunable Monitor daemon
SYNOPSIS
kcmond
DESCRIPTION
The kcmond daemon monitors the consumption of kernel resources. It is an Event Monitoring Services
(EMS - see ems(5)) monitor. The data collected by kcusage can be displayed by kcusage(1M).
kcmond includes a resource dictionary file (/etc/opt/resmon/dictionary/kcmond_01.dict) which is
used by EMS to identify resources for monitoring.
Users can control the monitoring of each kernel tunable by setting a percentage value for the consump-
tion of that resource. For example, if the user sets a value of 75 for nproc, the Kernel Tunable Monitor
will report an event when the number of processes reaches 75% of the nproc setting.
The kcalarm(1M) command is used to add, modify and delete kernel tunable alarms. The kcusage(1M)
command is used to view data collected by kcmond. The kcweb(1M) command provides a Web-based,
graphical user interface to control alarms and view usage data, including graphs of the usage data.
kcmond is a light weight daemon that will exit after being idle for ten minutes.
SUPPORTED PARAMETERS
For a complete list of the kernel tunables that can be monitored with this daemon, see the kcusage(1M)
manpage.
DEPENDENCIES
kcmond must be run by the registrar process of the Event Monitoring Service (EMS) and is not designed
to be run from the command line.
AUTHORS
kcmond was developed by Hewlett-Packard.
FILES
/usr/lbin/kcmond
Executable.
/etc/opt/resmon/dictionary/kcmond_01.dict
The resource dictionary for kcmond, describes the location (e.g.,
/system/kernel_tunables/nproc) of kernel tunables in the resource hierarchy and references
kcmond as the resource monitor.
/etc/opt/resmon/log/api.log
Log file for the entire Resource Monitor Framework, including kcmond. Any errors are logged
here.
SEE ALSO
kcalarm(1M), ems(5), kcusage(1M).
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