Re: [monit] Alerts not being triggered

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Have you tried to specify which mail server Monit should use for alerts?

See 
http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#setting_a_mail_server_for_alert_messages



On 16. jan.. 2009, at 08.00, Bruce Reed wrote:

> I’ve just begun using monit and I am having difficulties getting  
> monit to send mail. I’m testing using ntpd and it is restarting the  
> process, but not sending mail on service restart events or timeout.  
> In monit.conf I have:
>
> set alert address@hidden
>
> I then had a check statement like this:
>
>  check process ntpd with pidfile /var/run/ntpd.pid
>     start program = "/etc/init.d/ntpd start"
>     stop program  = "/etc/init.d/ntpd stop"
>     if 3 restarts within 3 cycles then timeout
>     alert address@hidden only on { timeout }
>
> After 3 successive kills of ntpd and restarts by monit, a timeout  
> message was logged, but no mail was sent. I tried removing the alert  
> statement to see if mail would be sent on any event, but I only see  
> information iogged and no mail is sent. Nothing in /var/log/maillog  
> either.
>
> Funny thing is, when I first set this up monit attempted to send  
> mail, but an ACL on my postifx server prevented it from getting  
> through. I fixed that and retried my test, but from that point on no  
> mail was sent. Thought perhaps this was a state caching issue, but  
> no change across monit restart and I installed monit on another  
> server using the same conf files and I get the same results there.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce