* 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)

       -D ,--detail
              do not conver data to K/M/G

       -s ,--spec
              show spec field data, tsar --cpu -s sys,util

       -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

* Get and deploy tsar

see: http://code.taobao.org/trac/tsar/wiki/ZhWikiStart

* Contribution

We are avtively looking for contributors so if you have any ideas, bug reports, or patchs you would like to contribute please do not hesitate to do so.