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| SNCLIENT(8) | System Administration Utilities | SNCLIENT(8) |
NAME
snclient - Agent that runs and provides system checks and metrics.
DESCRIPTION
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.
Usage:
- snclient [global flags] [command] [flags]
Server commands:
Additional Commands:
- completion
- Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
- config
- Run configuration test or dump config in use.
- hash
- Hash password string
- help
- Help about any command
- inventory
- Gather inventory and print as json structure
- test
- Start test mode or run given query
- update
- Fetch and apply update
Flags:
- -h, --help
- print help and exit
- -V, --version
- print version and exit
- -c, --config stringArray
- path to config file, supports wildcards like *.ini (default is ./snclient.ini) (multiple)
- -q, --quiet
- set loglevel to error
- -v, --verbose count
- increase loglevel, -v means debug, -vv means trace
- --loglevel string
- set loglevel to one of: off, error, info, debug, trace
- --logformat string
- override logformat, see https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/kdar/factorlog
- --logfile string
- Path to log file or stdout/stderr
- --debug-profiler string
- start pprof profiler on this port, ex. :6060
- --cpuprofile string
- write cpu profile to `file
- --memprofile string
- write memory profile to `file
EXAMPLES
- * 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.
SEE ALSO
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 |