Re: [monit] Monit Troubles

[Matt Provenzale]

Alright, here's some information on my server for anyone who can help:

OS: Ubuntu 8.04 with a custom kernel (with support for more ram on 32bit)
Proc: 4x Xeon PIII
Ram: 8gb
Monit Version: 5.0 Beta 4

> Your problem may or may not be monit related.  There are many approaches, but 
> for starters, debugging 
> a system problem is best done by reading the logs.  These however, vary with 
> distro.  On the 
> production Cent servers I manage, the pertinent ones might be 
> "/var/log/messages" and maybe 
> "/var/log/maillog".  At home on a mangled Slackware box, the "messages" file 
> would instead be "system" 
> (IIRC).

Thanks, I've checked my system logs, and am not seeing anything out of the 
ordinary. The only thing I see is some warnings about maximum SMTP connections 
reached, which is because monit is sending emails out at such a fast volume. I 
really don't know whether it would be a system or monit problem, since it just 
started out of the blue. I don't know how monit works, but I'm guessing 
somewhere there's some queue of alerts to send, and for some reason it's not 
clearing itself? I'm not a linux expert so I really don't have a clue.

Thanks for responding helping me out on this.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Young" <address@hidden>
To: "This is the general mailing list for monit" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 9:33:00 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [monit] Monit Troubles

Matt Provenzale wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Sorry if I'm doing this wrong but this is pretty much my first mailing list 
> post.
> 

Welcome!  You could read:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

for an excellent summary of how to go about it.  For instance, a more specific 
subject line might be 
in order.  And to help, folks on list will definitely need to know your OS, 
including distro if linux, 
general hardware spec, version of monit (you did that below).  So, eg: "I'm 
running monit 4.10.1 on 
CentOS 5 on a dual Opteron with 2G of RAM".

> I have a slight problem that just started. I've been using monit for a couple 
> of months now and
> it's been working great. About 2 days ago my server "freaked out" and monit 
> began sending me alert
> after alert. So I figured a restart would help. I even tried updating monit 
> to the latest version
> to no avail. What happens is I enable monit and sudden begin to receive old 
> reports from 2 days ago
> sent over and over again, they never stop. I get 100's of alerts from the 
> same events that happened
> 2 days ago, they are even dated by monit as 2 days ago.
> 

Your problem may or may not be monit related.  There are many approaches, but 
for starters, debugging 
a system problem is best done by reading the logs.  These however, vary with 
distro.  On the 
production Cent servers I manage, the pertinent ones might be 
"/var/log/messages" and maybe 
"/var/log/maillog".  At home on a mangled Slackware box, the "messages" file 
would instead be "system" 
(IIRC).

regards
cy


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Thanks,
Matt Provenzale