1 = Monitoring Commands and Options
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19 * link:#intro[Naming Conventions]
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21 * link:#types[File Set Types]
28 The +ntpd+ daemon includes a comprehensive monitoring facility which
29 collects statistical data of various types and writes the data to
30 files associated with each type at defined events or intervals. The
31 files associated with a particular type are collectively called the
32 generation file set for that type. The files in the file set are the
35 File sets have names specific to the type and generation epoch. The
36 names are constructed from three concatenated elements _prefix_,
37 _filename_ and _suffix_:
40 The directory path specified in the +statsdir+ command.
42 The name specified by the +file+ option of the +filegen+ command.
44 A string of elements beginning with . (dot) followed by a number of
45 elements depending on the file set type.
47 There is a visualization tool, link:ntpviz.html[ntpviz], which assists
48 in making sense of statistics files.
51 == Monitoring Commands and Options
53 Unless noted otherwise, further information about these commands is on
54 the link:decode.html[Event Messages and Status Codes] page.
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