netmon.cf File

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Purpose

Provides network monitoring functions.

Description

The netmon.cf file is an optional configuration file that customers can put in place to augment the normally available ping targets with any hosts on the network that are not defined to be part of the cluster itself, and thus would not be picked up automatically, but are reachable from the cluster nodes, specifically from the IP addresses being monitored by topology services.

If the file exists in one of these paths on a node, every NIM on that node reads it when topology services are started and try to use its contents when exercising the network monitor library functions.

This file is not controlled by any cluster subsystems; it is not distributed to any other nodes in the cluster because it is added to one of them. It must be put on each node that needs it manually.

Files

/opt/rsct/samples/hats/netmon.cf
Sample version of the netmon.cf file

Implementation specifics

This file is part of the Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology (RSCT) fileset for AIX®.

Location

/usr/es/sbin/cluster/netmon.cf
Location of the netmon.cf file in a PowerHA® environment
/var/ct/cfg/netmon.cf
Location of the netmon.cf file in an RSCT peer domain