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Title:		MAT 
Version:	0.16
Entered-date:	May 6th, 1998
Description:	MAT is a distributed monitoring and management tool
                for Linux, 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.  
		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.
                New in this release is a monitoring daemon "MATd".
                MATd is a GUI configurable system monitoring daemon.
                It currently can monitor:
                    Disk use, Network connectivity, CPU use, Run-queue,
                    Logins, and Required processes. 
                Several of the monitored parameters are displayed in 
                graphs.  MATd can also run user provided scripts.  
                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 alarms when
                user set parameter thresholds are exceeded.
		New this release:
			- MATd the trend monitoring daemon.
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
		846kB mat-0.16.tgz
		2234  mat.lsm
Alternate-site: 
Original-site:
Platforms:	Linux, SunOS, Solaris with Tcl/TK
Copying-policy:	Freeware/Shareware see the License file
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