statmon(5)
NAME
statmon, current, backup, state − statd directory and file structures
SYNTAX
/etc/sm /etc/sm.bak /etc/state
DESCRIPTION
The directories /etc/sm and /etc/sm.bak are generated by the statd daemon. Each entry in /etc/sm represents the name of the system to be monitored by statd. Each entry in /etc/sm.bak represents the name of the system to be notified by statd upon its recovery.
The file /etc/state is generated by statd to record its version number, that is, the number of times statd was invoked. The version number is incremented each time a crash or recovery takes place.