Monitorix is a computer

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tool that periodically collects system data and uses the web interface to show the information as graphs. Monitorix allows monitoring of overall system performance, and can help detect bottlenecks, failures, unusually long response times and other anomalies. One part of the tool is a collector, called ''monitorix.'' This Perl daemon is started automatically like any other system service. The second program of Monitorix is a CGI script (''monitorix.cgi).'' Since version 3.0 Monitorix has its own HTTP server included, what makes installing an own web server unnecessary. Monitorix is

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licensed under the terms of the

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version 2 (GPLv2) as published by the

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. It uses the

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(written by Tobi Oetiker) and is written in

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* {{official, https://www.monitorix.org/ Internet Protocol based network software Network management Free software programmed in Perl

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