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Re: Monit switches to "not monitored" state occasionally
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Martin Pala |
Subject: |
Re: Monit switches to "not monitored" state occasionally |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:16:03 +0100 |
Hi Johannes,
you should check the monit logs - it will show why the service monitoring was
disabled (whether it was some manual action, etc.).
Regards,
Martin
On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a problem with systems which run Monit at the moment: There are
> multiple clients out there running daemons. These daemons (among other
> things) terminate from time to time in a well-defined fashion (for
> example, if the application is updated).
>
> We rely on monit to properly restart the daemons. However I've seen
> production systems lately which were unresponsive. Upon closer
> inspection I was shocked to see that all monitored processes were in the
> "not monitored" state:
>
> [...]
> Process 'foobar'
> status not monitored
> monitoring status not monitored
> data collected Fri Jan 13 12:10:00 2012
>
> There was defniitely no manual opertor setting them into the unmonitored
> state and the logs do not give any clue as to why these processes are
> unmonitored. Since /root/.monit.state is a binary file, I have no chance
> of finding out any meaningful information as to what the reason might be.
>
> Is there a way to find out what caused monit to unomonitor the daemons?
> We're using monit 5.1.1-1 on Debin Squeeze with pretty simple config files:
>
> check process foobar with pidfile /var/run/foobar.pid
> start program = "/etc/init.d/foobar start"
> stop program = "/etc/init.d/foobar stop"
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Best regards,
> Joe
>
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