About remstats
  Release Notes
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  Prerequisites
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      alert-templates
      archives
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      colors
      customgraphs
      dbi-connects
      dbi-selects
      environment
      general
      groups
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      host templates
      html
      links
      ntops
      oids
      pages
      page-templates
      remotepings
      run
      run-stages
      rrds
      scripts
      times
      tools
      views
      view templates
  Configuration Tools
  Servers
  Collectors
  Updater
  Monitors
  pagemakers
  run-remstats2
  CGIs
  troubleshooting
  do-traceroutes
  Miscellany
  Thank-you
  Index

Remstats was written by Thomas Erskine at the CRC in Canada and now looking for work.

• datadir (REQUIRED) - The data for a given host is stored under datadir/hostname. There are also other status files stored in this directory.
• staletime (UNUSED) - How long before we count a status as stale. (seconds)
• minuptime - How long a host must be up before it stops being flagged as recently up. (seconds)
• keepalerts (UNUSED) - How long to keep records of alerts after the condition no longer exists. (seconds)
• uptimealert - If this is set, the alert-monitor will cause a warning level condition on the fake rrd MISC for the fake variable UPTIME, for any host whose uptime is less than this value. Whether this will trigger an alert depends on the alerts file.
• pinger - If defined, this names the ping-collector to be used before all the other collectors. (Unless you write your own, you put ping-collector here.) If you don't include this line, then you'll want to make sure the the ping-collector is listed in the collectors line (below).
• collectors - This line tells run-remstats which collectors to run. The default list is all of them, so you can gain some benefit by pareing this line down to those you are using, but remember it if you add new rrds that need other collectors later. Note: you list the names of the collectors without the '-collector' on the end. E.G. the ping-collector would be included as just 'ping'.
• monitors - This line tells run-remstats which monitors to run. The default is all of them.
• pagemakers - This tells run-remstats which pagemakers to run at the end, if the config-dir has changed. The default is all of them.
• max-port-patterns - This tells the port-collector how many parenthesised patterns there can be, at most, in valuepatterns or infopatterns. The default is 10.
• watchdogtimer - This sets the limit that run-remstats will apply to each of the programs that it runs, so that, e.g., a hanging collector will not hang the whole remstats cycle.
• keeplogs - This tells how long cleanup will permit old files to hang around, in seconds.
• pagetemplatedir - This tells where the page templates for L<page-writer are kept. This allows you to change the look of pages with a one-line change here. Assuming that you have a different set of page templates in another directory.