Monitoring several AFD's (afd_mon)


In an environment where you have several AFD's it is advisable to use afd_mon. This is a program that collects all status information of all AFD's so that they can be made visible via the dialog mon_ctrl. If wanted it is also able to collect all the log files of the remote AFD's. afd_mon gets the information via TCP-socket from the process afdd mentioned above.
To setup afd_mon you must create a configuration file $AFD_WORK_DIR/etc/AFD_MON_CONFIG which looks as
follows: