%%name: GNU AWACS

%%short-description: Monitors computer system(s)
 
%%full-description: GNU AWACS is a project aimed at giving you
complete knowledge and control over everything that happens on your
machine or within a network. By collecting information from logfiles,
devices, programs, and binary plugins, it can gather anything you
ever wanted to know about your system. This information can then be
processed, evaluated, and interlinked in almost any way. The processed
data can then be used for output backends into logfiles, programs,
databases, and much more. The data can also be viewed in a comfortable
way with the help of multiple clients.

The program provides a kind of data-oriented programming language for
your system. Possible uses include programming your system to handle
basic admininstrative tasks, monitoring possible security problems,
and gathering statistics about jobs/processes/network/user activity.

If you just need a simple tool to monitor some logfiles and devices,
GNU Xlogmaster can do it for you. However, AWACS provides additonally
background daemons, net, and pure ASCII clients for terminal
connections. The configuration is split into control language and
client-specific files which means you can use one configuration for all
clients.

Right now, GNU AWACS is in the alpha stage: the lib contains only
the most basic structures plus several elements and commands,
but there is only one client, the micro daemon, implemented.

%%category: administration

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Georg Greve <greve@gnu.org>

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%%updated: 22 Mar 2000

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%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.gnu.org/software/

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%%developers: Georg Greve <greve@gnu.org>

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%%source: ftp:ftp.gnu.org/pub/

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%%version: 0.1.1 development 02 Jan 2000

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%%help-list: help-awacs@gnu.org

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%%dev-list: devel-awacs@gnu.org

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%%bug-list: bug-awacs@gnu.org










 





