Re: [monit] Error in monit configuration

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 15. aug.. 2009, at 18.53, Giuseppe wrote:

> check process mysql with pidfile /var/db/mysql/ 
> hostname.domain.local.pid
> if failed port 3306 protocol mysql for 1 cycles then exec "/home/ 
> manager/monit.sh"
>
> The problem is that if I manually stop mysql to check if monit works  
> well, the script is not executed, and in the log file I find every 5  
> seconds these 2 lines:
>
> [ Aug 15 18:41:02] error    : 'mysql' process is not running
> [ Aug 15 18:41:02] error    : monit: Start or stop method not  
> defined -- process mysql

Yes, you need to specify a start and stop command for a check process  
entry to manage the process.

> I don’t want monit to try to restart the process, but only to  
> execute my script, what did I failed in the configuration file?

In this case, use a check host entry instead, for example

check host mysql_localhost with address 127.0.0.1
 if failed port 3306 protocol mysql then exec "/home/manager/monit.sh"