Re: [monit-dev] A few config questions

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 21. april. 2008, at 11.17, Brian Candler wrote:

> (1) In the attached config snippet, the pidfile location is  
> hardcoded in
> three separate places:
>
> Can I simplify this to remove the duplication of the pidfile path?

You could put those start/stop statement into a small script to start  
and stop the program.

> (2) What's the reason why /etc/monitrc cannot be a symlink? monit  
> refuses to
> start if this is the case.

Security, so there is a one-to-one mapping between monit and its  
control file. You can use the -c option to monit if you want to  
specify a control file in a non-default location.

> (3) Is there any way in the web interface to perform group  
> operations? In
> particular I'd like to be able to do "monit restart -g testapp" via  
> the web,
> but I haven't found a way to do this.

The web interface does not support this, but the command line does.  
You may also want to take a look at m/monit which allows you to select  
many services and perform an action on them, which is kind of what you  
are after.