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Introduction to Cognizant

Cognizant is a Ruby based open source process management framework. Its primary goal is to make it easier for a system administrator to maintain a application processes.

If you are new to Cognizant, here are a few resources that can help you get up to speed right away:

• For help getting Cognizant set up, try the install guide.
• Like learning by example? Check out the tutorials below.
• For advanced usage details, check out the source code documentation.
• Check out the FAQs.

Basic Info

• System Requirements
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Source Documentation (hosted on RubyDoc.info)

Getting Started

• Installation Instructions
• Architecture Overview
• Starting the Monitoring Daemon
• Using the Administration Utility

Monitoring

• Monitoring Overview
• Loading Configuration into the Monitoring Daemon
• Program Configuration Attributes

Conditions

• Conditions Overview
• Using the Built-in Conditions
• Writing Custom Conditions

Example Configurations

• Redis Server Instances
• Resque Workers

Tutorials

• Getting Started with Cognizant on Ubuntu
• Getting Started with Cognizant on SmartOS
• Getting Started with Cognizant on OS X