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

[Martin Pala]

The “action” event is triggered for CLI/GUI manual actions only (such as “monit 
start apache”). If monit detects some error it sends failure notification and 
the recovery notification when the problem is fixed => two emails are normal.

Regards,
Martin


> On 10 Jun 2015, at 21:17, Jo Rhett <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> 
>> -- 
>> Jo Rhett
>> +1 (415) 999-1798
>> Skype: jorhett
>> Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet 
>> projects.
>> 
> 
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> Jo Rhett
> +1 (415) 999-1798
> Skype: jorhett
> Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet 
> projects.
> 
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