hi,
it works fine now. i had problems with my default gateway settings. because
of that the mailserver was unreachable. ;) stupid mistake. but itīs good to
know, what you said about the Time Period Specification.
Thanks a lot
Philippe
PS: the strange things work. but i fix it. itīs better.
> > hello,
> > i installed mon and configured it. when i test it (shut a daemon down),
> > mon.cgi says that the service is down and that mail will be sent. but on
> > the account i donīt receive any mail.
> >
> ># /etc/mon.cf
> >
> > hostgroup test 10.0.0.1
> >
> > watch test
> > service ping
> > description ping mailserver
> > interval 5m
> > monitor fping.monitor
> > period wd {Mon-Sun} hr {0am-11pm}
> > alert mail.alert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > alertevery 5m
> >
> > something wrong with the configuration?
> > any idea?
>
>
> You've got a couple things which are slightly strange, but they shouldn't
> cause any problems. I suspect the actual problem is that your
> alert script
> either doesn't exist or isn't executable.
>
> The strange things are:
> The second half of your period statement is unnecessary. If you want an
> 'allways' period, any single range that covers everything will work, so
> either 'wd {Mon-Sun}' or 'hr {12am-11pm}'. But both shouldn't be a
> problem. (Though Time::Period doesn't claim to support "0am",
> but (testing
> it) it looks like it works)
>
> Also, on a test whose interval is 5 minutes, an alertevery of 5
> minutes is
> pointless. (Mon only alerts after events. If your interval was 1 hour,
> you'd never get an alert more often then once an hour.) But again, that
> shouldn't cause any problems.
>
> Have you looked at syslog, to see if anything is getting reported. If
> there is nothing there you might want to enable more syslog logging,
> 'daemon.info' will get you lots of stuff from mon. (assuming you haven't
> set the syslog facility to something other then daemon in your mon.cfg)
>
>
> -David Nolan
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