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Introduction

Cognizant is a Ruby based open source process management framework. Its primary goal is to make it easier for system administrators and application developers to monitor and maintain system and application processes' lifecycle.

• System Requirements
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Source Documentation
• RubyGems Page

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

• Thin Server Cluster
• Redis Server Instances (pending)
• Resque Workers (pending)

Tutorials

• Getting Started with Cognizant on Ubuntu (pending)
• Getting Started with Cognizant on SmartOS (pending)
• Getting Started with Cognizant on OS X (pending)

Development

• Dependencies
• Contributing and Testing