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Title:		MAT 
Version:	0.18
Entered-date:	Jan 17th, 1999
Description:	MAT is a distributed monitoring and management tool
                for Linux, SGI, SunOS, and Solaris machines.  The tool
                provides an easy to use GUI interface from which the 
                sysadmin, or designated user can administer many of
                the common UNIX configuration files.  MAT can monitor
		many system parameters, producing usage graphs, and 
		triggering alarms.
		The current release of the tool can add modify and delete:
		    Users, Hosts, Groups, Mounts, Motd, DNS client config, 
		    Services, Aliases, Cron jobs, Syslog config, NFS
                    exports, DNS records, and NIS maps.
                Monitoring functions allow you to inspect:
                    Syslog files, Routing tables, disk space, exports
                    and processes.
                MATd is a GUI configurable system monitoring daemon.
                It currently can monitor:
                    Disk use, Network connectivity, CPU use, Run-queue,
                    Logins, SMTP daemons, FTP servers and Required processes. 
		On Linux machines it also produces graphs of memory and swap
		use.  New to this release is the ability to discover all 
		the parameters, memory, cpu, swap etc automatically.
                MATd can also run user provided scripts if a
		threshold is exceeded, notifing the administrator of
		potential problems.    
                A house-keeping task periodically trims MATd log files.
		Some for the key features include:
		  - Can control many hosts from a single console.
		  - The ability to deligate responsibility to others.
		  - Monitor several system parameters for trend analysis.
	 	  - DNS, and NIS servers are easliy managed.
		Developement of a tape tool is currently underway, as
                well as enhancements to MATd to provide more monitored 
		parameters.
		New this release:
			- Hooks to allow users to extend the program
			- Automatic discovery of parameters it can monitor
			- Bug fixes 
			- A WWW site: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~sblack/mat
Keywords:	Distributed Systems Management Monitoring Administration
Author:		sblack@ee.ryerson.ca   Mark Black
Maintained-by:  sblack@ee.ryerson.ca   Mark Black
Primary-site:	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/Incoming/
		sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/admin/frontends
		1727kB mat-0.18.tar.gz
		2573  mat.lsm
Alternate-site: 
Original-site:
Platforms:	Linux, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX with Tcl/TK
Copying-policy:	Freeware/Shareware see the License file
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