It has come to my mind to have two different configs, but I was hoping monit had a more elegant solution. Thanks.
Cheers, Vadym Sent from Android On Feb 4, 2016 7:47 AM, "Phil Townes" <philtown...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use two different monit configuration files. One for standby state, and > one for active state. > In the event that it is determined that a standby server is to become > active, the monit configuration file is overwritten with the config file > for an 'active' server, and monit is reloaded. > > I use a custom script for "should not be running" services in the standby > state: > > #! /bin/bash > # Look for a service that should be offline > ps -ef | grep -q 'my-service-name-here' > > # Return an appropriate exit code > if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then > echo "Process exists, this is a failure" > exit 1; > else > echo "Process does NOT exist. This is a success." > exit 0; > fi > > On 4 February 2016 at 11:52, Vadym Chepkov <vchep...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Can somebody give an advice how to implement active/standby configuration >> using monit. >> >> There are some services which can't run from multiple locations for >> various reasons. To solve this problem, we have a script, which can be used >> to check if current location is active or standby via exit code. cron >> wrapper uses it to determine if cron job should run or not, for instance. >> >> But how does one tell monit to start/monitor services if server becomes >> active and stop, make sure they are not running if server is in standby >> mode. >> This should be applied only to 'volatile' services, not all of them. >> Thank you. >> >> Cheers, >> Vadym >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe: >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >
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