mondump is a program based on the PCFS monit2 software that retrieves monitoring information and sends it to a central server. The information is used by scheduling software to decide how to use the telescope. mondump can be run from the command line or via a PCFS procedure (e.g. midob) if desired, but it is called regularly by dysched.pl to keep the server up to date.

mondump consists of several pieces of source code and a Makefile. It can be downloaded as a compressed tar file here:

1. mondump.tar.gz

On the PCFS, log in as prog:

1. cd /usr2/st
2. tar xzvf mondump.tar.gz
   1. This will create a directory called /usr2/st/mondump
3. cd mondump
   1. This directory contains the code and Makefile you need
   2. By default, the software is configured to send monitoring data to fourier.phys.utas.edu.au on a TCP socket connection on port 63000. If you want to change the destination or port number, edit the code in mdumpout.c and change the definition of portno and/or the server address on line 344
4. Now compile the software to create a binary called mondump:
   1. make

mondump can be tested from the command line:

/usr2/st/mondump/mondump