Re: onreboot with option laststate is a nice idea

[Martin Pala]

Hello Lutz,

good point, showing status "Stopped" is better. Updated the issue: 
https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/issues/378/if-the-application-is-stopped-monitor-the


Best regards,
Martin


> On 01 Jun 2016, at 17:57, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Hello Martin,
> thanks your effort.
> 
>> Some users however need to make sure that the stopped application was not 
>> started
>> externally, i.e. if the application is started, make sure it is running and 
>> if it
>> is stopped, make sure it is still stopped.
>> 
>> It is on the same page with requests where the user wants to make sure that 
>> some
>> application is always stopped - in this case it is antonym of "if does not 
>> exists
>> then " test: ""if exists then ". The above described request is
>> more dynamic ... uses "if does not exist" if the application was started and
>> "if exists" if the application was stopped.
> 
> Yes, you are right.
> But I think, the problem based on the dependency of the service status and 
> the monitoring status also.
> All the time I used "monit stop", the service is stopped and the status and 
> the monitor status become "Not monitored".
> 
> Service status "Not monitored", this is the historic name (I think), means 
> the service is "Stopped".
> Monitor status "Not monitored" means the monitor ignores the service from now.
> 
> If something like a "if exits then " became available it doesn't do anything 
> because the service monitoring is switched off for the service all the time a 
> "monit stop" was used.
> 
> In my opinion it is necessary to break the dependency between the status 
> handling.
> The monitoring status with "Monitored" and "Not monitored" fits, but the 
> dependency to the service status is sometimes improper, I thing.
> 
> Something like a "monit stop", for a process, should result in something like
> service status "Stopped"
> Monitoring status "Monitored"
> 
> A "monit start" or "monit monitor" should result in
> service status "Running", "Accessible", "Online with all services", "Status 
> ok", etc.(depending on whether the service became available or not)
> Monitoring status "Monitored"
> 
> A "monit unmonitor" should result in
> service status "Not monitored"
> Monitoring status "Not monitored"
> 
> The next step is a additional desired status to give someone more information 
> about the new, the desired, service status.
> For example, the desired status is "Stopped" as long as the process is 
> "Running" all the time someone enter "monit stop".
> 
> This fits to the new "onreboot" statement and give some more help if a 
> process is not start.
> For example "onreboot nostart" is used, the desired status become "Stopped" 
> because the process never started automatically.
> Or with "onreboot start" the desired status became "Started" independend a 
> process is started or not (a dependency doesn't fit).
> And with "onreboot laststate" the last desired status is used.
> 
> Sorry, some suggestion or notes only. I save a lot of time since I use monit.
> 
> With regards,
> Lutz
> 
> 
> 
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