* Introduce

Tsar is Taobao monitor tool for collect system activity status, and report it. It have a plugin system that is easy for collect plugin development. and may setup different output target such as local logfile and remote nagios host.

NAME

tsar - Taobao System Activity Reporter

SYNOPSIS

tsar [options] --tsar main function

tsardevel [modname] --develop new mod

DESCRIPTION

tsar is a monitor tool for collect system activity status and apps.

tsar reads and logs messages to the log files,It support different output target such as local console or remote db/nagios host.It

have a plugin system that is easy for collect plugin development.

OPTIONS

-check , -check

display last record for alert,it is just used for taobao inner alert

-C , --check

display last record for alert.example:tsar --check / tsar --check --cpu --io

-c , --cron

run in cron mode, output data to file,default is /var/log/tsar.data

-l ,--live

running print live mode which module will print

-i , --interval

specify intervals numbers, if not with --live,it is in minutes;if with --live, it is in seconds

-m , --merge

merge multiply item to one

-L , --list

list enabled modules

-n , --ndays

show the value for the past days (default: 1)

-d , --date

special one day to display,support formate YYYYMMDD or int for somedays ago

-f , --file

special tsar.data for tsar to read

-n , --ndays

show the value for the past days (default: 1)

-d , --date

special one day to display,support formate YYYYMMDD or int for somedays ago

-f , --file

special tsar.data for tsar to read

-n , --ndays

show the value for the past days (default: 1)

-h , --help

print help info

DIAGNOSTICS

It is expected that tsar will run as root

FILES

/etc/tsar/tsar.conf

Configuration file for tsar.output mod list for differnt type

/etc/tsar/cron.d/*.conf

extrat config file, usually tsar devel modules config

BUGS

If you find any, please send email to the kongjian@taobao.com