The upcoming release (monit 5.35.0) eliminates the delay in the process check, which may help to simplify the configuration a bit :)
Best regards, The Monit team > On 24. 3. 2025, at 0:59, Steven Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Following up on this for closure, I ended up doing something which included > dependencies. > > 1) Created a check for the DNS lookup, with a noalert. It simply succeeds or > fails on whether the DNS lookup works. > 2) Created the actual checking procedure, which has a "depends" on #1. > > I had to add a "for 3 cycles" on #2 because it looks like Monit doesn't > actually execute the process checks in an order based on depends statements. > Also, there looks to be a one check lag between the actual results and what > Monit reports. So the number 3 allowed me to effectively "pause" the checks > for #2 based on whether the DNS was working. > > Thanks for all the help! > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM Tino Hendricks via This is the general > mailing list for monit <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Hi Steven, >> >> the only thing coming to my mind if you can’t handle this in the script >> you’re using is >> >> https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#SERVICE-DEPENDENCIES >> >> Like, depending on a test for working DNS. >> >> Cheers! >> >> Tino >> >>> Am 13.03.2025 um 05:23 schrieb Steven Christensen <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>> >>> >>> Hi All, I have a use case I am not sure Monit can handle. I looked at the >>> document and tried keywords in this mailing list, but nothing came up. >>> >>> I have a script which checks another node for some information, and then >>> reports success or failure (via exit code).The script works fine in Monit. >>> >>> But due to some dodgy DNS service, sometimes when the script tries to get >>> information from the other node, the DNS lookup fails. So we don't know >>> whether the information would have resulted in a success or failure, to >>> report to Monit. >>> >>> My question: Is there a way to tell Monit during that script check interval >>> that the results of the check are indeterminate, that it should maintain >>> the previous success/failure state until it the next time it is able to >>> definitively report a true or false status? >>> >>> Thanks! >>>
