
NetConsole is the display agent for the NOCOL network monitoring software.
It displays the value and the state of the various monitored variables.

	USAGE:	netconsole [-d (debug)] [-q (quiet)] [-w (wide display)]
		[-l <level 1:4>] [alternate data directory]

Prompt options:

	b		- Bell on/off (toggle)
	c		- Contract size of event display screen
	d		- Debug mode (toggle)
	f		- Freeze screen (toggle)
	h		- help screen (this display)
	l <level>	- set new display Level (from 1 to 4)
	q		- Quit
	r		- Refresh screen
	s or /		- Search filter on event screen
	x		- eXpand size of event display screen
	w		- toggle Wide display mode
	any key		- for next screen

You can set the initial display level by setting the NOCOL_SEVERITY 
shell environment variable to Info/Warn/Error/Critical.

The User Screen:
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The screen is divided into two sections- the EVENT section and the MESSAGES
section. All site events are displayed in the EVENT section and any text
messages are displayed in the MESSAGES section. These messages are displayed
in rotation and scroll in each screenful.

By default the screen is updated every 15 seconds. However, by using
the 'freeze' option, the screen is updated only when the user hits
a key.

The size of the 'event' window can be manipulated using the 'c' and
'x' options. The message window grows correspondingly larger as
the event window shrinks in size.

Output Display Filter
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The output for the events can be filtered and only events matching a string
be displayed on the screen. The syntax of the search pattern is:

	word1 & word2 | word3

so that only the events that have 'word1' and 'word2' (both together) OR
word3 will be displayed. Regular expressions are not supported. All words
are converted to lowercase for case insensetive matching.


Terminal Type
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If your terminal type is unsuitable, you are prompted for the type
when you start the program. Common terminal types are:

	vt100, vtxxx			DEC terminals
	vt100-w, vt200-w		DEC terminals in 132 col mode
	xterm				for X window terminal emulator

Mail comments/suggestions to vikas@navya.com. Software is available via ftp
from    ftp://ftp.navya.com/pub/  or
        http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/nocol

