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SNCLIENT(8) System Administration Utilities SNCLIENT(8)

snclient - Agent that runs and provides system checks and metrics.

SNClient is a generic monitoring agent available for multiple platforms. It aims to provide a basic set of fault monitoring and metrics while being easily extendible with own script and checks.

snclient [global flags] [command] [flags]

Start the agent demonized in background
Start the agent

Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
Run configuration test or dump config in use.
Hash password string
Help about any command
Gather inventory and print as json structure
Start test mode or run given query
Fetch and apply update

print help and exit
print version and exit
path to config file, supports wildcards like *.ini (default is ./snclient.ini) (multiple)
set loglevel to error
increase loglevel, -v means debug, -vv means trace
set loglevel to one of: off, error, info, debug, trace
override logformat, see https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/kdar/factorlog
Path to log file or stdout/stderr
start pprof profiler on this port, ex. :6060
write cpu profile to `file
write memory profile to `file

* Start server
%> snclient server
* Start as daemon in background
%> snclient daemon
* Check for update in verbose mode
%> snclient update -v

Use "snclient [command] --help" for more information about a command.

The SNClient documentation is available in /usr/share/doc/snclient/README or online at https://omd.consol.de/snclient or https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient

February 2026 snclient 0.42