Not sure i am reading your mail correctly but if my understanding is right the only email you will recieve is on timeout. As regards the timeout status have you tried unmonitoring the service and then monitoring it again?
regards Wayne On 3 January 2012 15:18, Brice Laurencin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > sorry to bother you guys with what seems to be such a stupid question... > > I have a monit check so defined: > > check process the-service with pidfile /var/run/the-service/the-** > service.pid > alert [email protected] only on { timeout } > start program = "/etc/init.d/the-service start" > stop program = "/etc/init.d/the-service stop" > if failed port 42 protocol http and request "/manager/admin/count" with > timeout 15 seconds then restart > if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then alert > > So monit starts, launches the service, monitors it. Everything is fine. > > I then proceed to kill the service a few times (using Unix kill), after > every monit cycle. > I end up with this monit log: > > [CET Jan 3 15:11:22] error : 'the-service' process is not running > [...] > [CET Jan 3 15:11:55] error : 'the-service' service restarted 3 times > within 3 cycles(s) - alert > [CET Jan 3 15:11:56] error : 'the-service' process is not running > [CET Jan 3 15:11:56] info : 'the-service' trying to restart > [CET Jan 3 15:11:56] info : 'the-service' start: > /etc/init.d/the-service > [CET Jan 3 15:12:07] error : 'the-service' service restarted 4 times > within 4 cycles(s) - alert > [CET Jan 3 15:12:07] info : 'the-service' process is running with pid > 16488 > > I then receive a lonely mail, wich is quite consistent with the > configuration, since I didn't ask for reminders. > > What I can't get to understand is the process status, which stays as > timeout: > Process 'the-service' > status Timeout > monitoring status monitored > [...] > > Even though the process is up and running. > If I stop/start the service using monit stop/start, the process is still > timeout. If I then kill the process, I have a monit log looking quite like > the one above. > > But this time, no mail. Could still be consistent, since the process is > timeout, but the process was working for a period of time, so this should > be a new timeout, and monit seems to now it because it tells me it will > alert. > > What do I have to do to bring the process back to running, from monit > point of vue, so I can receive subsequent alerts? > > Thanks for your help! > Brice. > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/**mailman/listinfo/monit-general<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general> >
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