The scout program can help you monitor the File Exporter running on any File Server machine. When you use scout, it periodically collects statistics from the File Server machines that you specify and displays the information in a graphical format. The program has several useful features:
· You can monitor the File Exporters on several File Server machines, including the local machine and machines in other cells, from one location.
· You can set attention thresholds for many of the statistics. When a value exceeds the specified threshold, scout highlights it with reverse video; when the value drops below the threshold, scout removes the highlighting.
· If the File Exporter on a machine does not respond to scout's probes, the program highlights the machine's name on the screen and blanks the other fields for the machine. When the File Exporter returns to service, the machine name and the statistics are again displayed normally.
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An Overview of the scout Program