Is the "heartbeat" just a periodic email? Why not put that in a cron job?

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Tino Hendricks <t.hendri...@nice2cu.de>
wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what is the benefit of having mails sent to you
> regardless of the system state?
> I always consider it the biggest advantage of a monitoring that it
> _alerts_ you actively in case of emergency.
>
>
> Am 23. Januar 2017 um 17:59:56, Paul Tiseo (paulxti...@gmail.com(mailto:p
> aulxti...@gmail.com)) schrieb:
>
> > So, I set monitrc to the below. Not sure where I am to add the
> "reminder" clause so that the heartbeat service is the one that emails me
> without fail (don't want this to apply to other services). Suggestions?
> >
> > set daemon 60 with start delay 15
> > set logfile /apps/monit.log
> > set pidfile /apps/monit.pid
> > set idfile /apps/monit.id(http://monit.id)
> > set statefile /apps/state
> >
> > set mailserver smtp.gmail.com(http://smtp.gmail.com) port 587
> > username "a...@aaa.com(mailto:a...@aaa.com)" password "aaa"
> > using tlsv12
> >
> > set httpd port 2182
> > allow aaa:aaa
> > signature disable
> >
> > set alert a...@aaa.com(mailto:a...@aaa.com)
> >
> > #-- HEARTBEAT ---------------------------------------------------------
> > check host agp-heartbeat address 127.0.0.1 every 2 cycles
> > if failed ping then alert
> > else if succeeded then alert
> > --
> > Thanks.
> >
> > _______________________________
> > Paul Tiseo, paulxti...@gmail.com(mailto:paulxti...@gmail.com)
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