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Title:		MAT 
Version:	0.21
Entered-date:	Jan 30th, 2000
Description:	MAT is a distributed monitoring and management tool
                for Linux, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX and HPUX  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, as well
		as backup and replicate/mirror files.  New to this
		release is the replication/mirroring tool.
		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, lastlog, routing, nic info etc
                MATd is a GUI configurable system monitoring daemon.
                It currently can monitor:
                    Disk use, Network connectivity, CPU use, Run-queue,
                    Logins, SMTP daemons, FTP servers and Required 
		    processes, memory and swap. 
                Several of the monitored parameters are displayed in 
                graphs.  MATd can also run user provided scripts if a
		threshold is exceeded.    
                A house-keeping task periodically trims MATd log files.
		Some for the key features include:
		  - Can replicate files across many machines
	 	  - Can backup across the network to a single tape server
		  - 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.
		New this release:
			- Restore GUI.
			- Upgrade MAT hosts from a single console (fix)
			- MAT host groups 
Keywords:	Distributed Systems Management Monitoring Administration
Author:		sblack@ee.ryerson.ca   Mark Black
Maintained-by:  sblack@ee.ryerson.ca   Mark Black
Primary-site:	www.ee.ryerson.ca/~sblack/mat
		1676kB mat-0.21.tar.gz
		2361  mat.lsm
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/admin/frontends
Original-site:  www.ee.ryerson.ca/~sblack/mat
Platforms:	Linux, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, and HPUX
Copying-policy:	Freeware/Shareware see the License file
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