Re: [monit] Alerts not being triggered

[Bruce Reed]

Here is the verbose output. Looks like verbose output begins and ends at
process start up (host/domain names changed):

Starting Process Monitor (monit): monit: Debug: Adding host allow
'localhost'
monit: Debug: Skipping redundant host 'localhost'
monit: Debug: Skipping redundant host 'localhost'
monit: Debug: Adding credentials for user 'admin'.
Runtime constants:
 Control file       = /etc/monit.conf
 Log file           = syslog
 Pid file           = /var/run/monit.pid
 Debug              = True
 Log                = True
 Use syslog         = True
 Is Daemon          = True
 Use process engine = True
 Poll time          = 60 seconds
 Mail server(s)     = prodsmtp.mydomain.net
 Mail from          = address@hidden
 Mail subject       = monit alert --  $EVENT $SERVICE
 Mail message       = $EVENT Service $SERV..(truncated)
 Start monit httpd  = True
 httpd bind address = localhost
 httpd portnumber   = 2812
 httpd signature    = True
 Use ssl encryption = False
 httpd auth. style  = Basic Authentication and Host/Net allow list
 Alert mail to      = address@hidden
   Alert on         = All events

The service list contains the following entries:

Process Name          = ntpd
 Pid file             = /var/run/ntpd.pid
 Monitoring mode      = active
 Start program        = '/etc/init.d/ntpd start' timeout 1 cycle(s)
 Stop program         = '/etc/init.d/ntpd stop' timeout 1 cycle(s)
 Pid                  = if changed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
 Ppid                 = if changed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
 Timeout              = If 3 restart within 3 cycles then unmonitor else if
passed then alert

System Name           = test-prod.mydomain.net
 Monitoring mode      = active

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
monit: pidfile '/var/run/monit.pid' does not exist
Starting monit daemon with http interface at [localhost:2812]


Then when ntp is killed I see the following in /var/log/messages:

Jan 16 19:10:50 test-prod ntpd[13505]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Jan 16 19:11:32 test-prod monit[2398]: 'ntpd' process is not running
Jan 16 19:11:32 test-prod monit[2398]: 'ntpd' trying to restart
Jan 16 19:11:32 test-prod monit[2398]: 'ntpd' start: /etc/init.d/ntpd
Jan 16 19:11:32 test-prod ntpd[2541]: ntpd address@hidden Tue Jun 10
00:07:18 UTC 2008 (1)
Jan 16 19:11:32 test-prod ntpd[2542]: precision = 2.000 usec
.
.

There is no additional output from monit and no attempt to send mail
according to maillog.

On 1/16/09 3:52 AM, "Jan-Henrik Haukeland" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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_ale
> rt_messages
> 
> 
> 
> On 16. jan.. 2009, at 08.00, Bruce Reed wrote:
> 
>> I¹ve just begun using monit and I am having difficulties getting
>> monit to send mail. I¹m 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
> 
> 
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