Services are not just the representation for standard long-running system services such as in.dhcpd or nfsd. Services also represent varied system entities. In addition, a service can represent less traditional entities such as the following:
A physical network device
A configured IP address
Kernel configuration information
Milestones that correspond to a system init state, such as the multiuser run level
Attributes (parameters)
The following attributes are available for this monitor type: