$Id: README.variables,v 1.1 1998/01/13 05:36:33 trockij Exp $

THIS FILE IS OUTDATED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.

_op_status
    undef if this service was never tested before
    0 if the last test of this service failed
    1 if the last test of this service succeeded
