Re: notification of (action) restarts aren't sent

[Jo Rhett]

Okay, I’ve just read through the entire release notes from 5.2.5 up to current 
and I don’t see any notes about this — I can’t imagine nobody else has 
complained about this, so … what am I doing wrong?

On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Jo Rhett <address@hidden> wrote:
> Note that I have removed the “only on” statement so that all alerts are sent, 
> and confirmed that when the process is restarted I receive the nonexist 
> alerts but nothing else.
> 
> Does version 5.2.5 completely fail with regards to its published man page 
> about actions taken?
> 
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Jo Rhett <address@hidden> wrote:
>> So I’ve installed monit 5.2.5 from EPEL. I realize this is old, but want to 
>> ensure that this isn’t a configuration issue. Can someone point out to me if 
>> I did something wrong here?
>> 
>> I’ve configured it send all alerts to my address, which works. If I leave 
>> instance alerts on, I get notified every time monit stops and starts.  
>> 
>> The restart works properly — the service is restarted, but no e-mail is 
>> sent. If I enable “nonexist” alerts, I get an alert that the process doesn’t 
>> exist, and then an alert that it has been started. That’s two alerts, and 
>> I’d like just one. I want the “action” alert, but one is not being sent. If 
>> I disable both instance and nonexist, no e-mail is sent when the service is 
>> restarted.
>> 
>> The documentation says: 
>>> In each test you must select the action to be executed from this list:
>>>      ·   RESTART restarts the service and sends an alert.
>> 
>> That underline is in the man page for emphasis. However I’m not receiving 
>> the alert that it was restarted.
>> 
>> Config:
>> 
>> set alert address@hidden
>> only on { action, connection, content, data, exec, fsflags, gid, icmp, 
>> invalid, permission, resource, size, timeout, timestamp, uid }
>> 
>> check process apache
>> with pidfile /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid
>> group apache
>> start "/etc/init.d/httpd start"
>> stop "/etc/init.d/httpd stop"
>> if failed host localhost port 80 protocol http request "/robots.txt" for 2 
>> cycles
>>   then restart
>> if failed host localhost port 80 protocol apache-status waitlimit < 20% for 
>> 2 cycles
>>   then alert
>> if 3 restarts within 5 cycles
>>   then alert
>> 
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> projects.
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Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects.