Re: Monit with heartbeat

[Kenneth Yip]

Hi Martin

Thanks.

Kenneth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Pala" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Monit with heartbeat


> To avoid misunderstands, the mentioned file /var/run/myapp_start_count 
> must be in the exclusive managment of start method (program or script 
> specified by "start program = ..." option in monit' service check 
> definition). On the beggining of start method you will check the state 
> of this file, on the end you will update it.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> Martin Pala wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Monit has no direct support for this feature (e.g. exec some action in 
> > the case that timeout occured). It could be possible to bypass it
> > in start method (count its execution ratio depending on time).
> >
> > Probably it could be sufficient to store number of start attempts for 
> > example in /var/run/myapp_start_count. You can than check the 
> > timestamp of this file on the beggining of the start method and count 
> > of starts which are stored in it. If it exceedes optional limit, (for 
> > example more x starts in y minutes), you can trigger specific action 
> > to stop webserver on this node (stop or unmonitor it via monit) and 
> > start webserver on partner node. Maybe there are other (better) 
> > possibilities how to reach it.
> >
> > Next option could be to implement it in monit directly - provide 
> > possibility to define the action which will be done in the case of 
> > timeout event.
> >
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > Kenneth Yip wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all
> >>
> >> Is it possible to use Monit with heartbeat such that in case
> >> of Monit timeout on restarting a web server, heartbeat
> >> can be triggered to perform a hardware failover from
> >> one node to the other?
> >>
> >> rgds,
> >> Kenneth
> >>
> >>
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