Re: Monitoring processes with the same name but different PID files

[Martin Pala]

“service” name is not the same as “process” name … service name in Monit is unique description of the monitored service - not related to the monitored object. If you have multiple processes with the same process name, you can monitor them, just choose unique service name for each process:

check process myprocess_XYZ with pidfile /var/run/myprocess1.pid

check process myprocess_ABC with pidfile /var/run/myprocess2.pid

On 20 Jul 2015, at 19:26, Samitha Wijedasa <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I'm getting "Error: service name conflict, <process name> already defined" error if I define two configuration entries for the corresponding process with different pid files in the same configuration file. Only way I can get this thing implemented is to run two instances of monit with two different configuration files.

Thanks

Samitha

On Monday, 20 July 2015, 11:26, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

Yes,

if you use pidfile, the process name is not significant - monit checks the process by the PID from the file, they can have the same name.

Regards,

Martin

On 20 Jul 2015, at 17:24, Samitha Wijedasa <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

How can I monitor two processes with the same name but different PID files ?

Thanks

Samitha