Re: [Bulk] Re: Monit from crontab?

[Kevin Chadwick]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
Aubrey Jaffer wrote:

>  | Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:50:33 +0000
>  | From: Kevin Chadwick <address@hidden>
>  | 
>  | On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:08:47 -0400 (EDT)
>  | Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
>  | 
>  | > I want to set up a monitor which sends an email if a website goes
>  | > down.  I don't have root access on the machine I will run Monit
>  | > on.  The Monit documentation describes how to modify /etc/inittab
>  | > to run Monit, but is silent as to how to run Monit from the
>  | > crontab program.
>  | 
>  | It's best to do this from another system or both. Of course you can
>  | do it locally but isn't a complete test.
> 
> Yes, I am running monit on a separate system.  Appended is my .monitrc
> file.  When I run monit, it complains that voluntocracy.gro isn't
> found, but it doesn't send any email.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
>                             -=-=-=-=-
> 
> set daemon 60
> 
> set logfile /home/jaffer/monit.log
> 
> set mailserver localhost
> 
> set mail-format { from: address@hidden }
> 
> set alert address@hidden
> 
> check host voluntocracy.gro with address voluntocracy.gro
>    if failed url http://voluntocracy.gro
>       then alert
> 
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Maybe there's more than one way to skin the cat but this is what I
would use.

check host voluntocracy.gro with address voluntocracy.gro
        if failed port 80 protocol http and with timeout 20 seconds 
        then alert
        if failed port 443 type tcpssl protocol http and with timeout 20
        seconds then alert