Re: Correct method to monitor service?

[Martin Pala]

If you start the service via monit, monit will start monitoring it.

The mentioned "set httpd" statement doesn't allow connections from outside, as it sets monit to listen on localhost (127.0.0.1) only and also sets ACL to allow access only from localhost (127.0.0.1) and using correct credentials (you should change the credentials to something else then default "admin:monit").

Regards,

Martin

On 10 Nov 2015, at 05:22, frwa onto <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Martin,

              Thank you I just did service monit restart and now it works. My next question what is different between starting using say monit start service1 or using the other method  ./startDaemon.sh. I notice in both methods when the missing pid monit do restart my app ?

Another thing  just to confirm with you by enabling it am I allowing port 2812 access from outside or will this post any security concern even though I am not using the web version?

set httpd port 2812 and
    use address localhost  # only accept connection from localhost
    allow localhost        # allow localhost to connect to the server and
    allow admin:monit      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

Please make sure you did "monit reload" after configuration changes.

Regards,

Martin

On 09 Nov 2015, at 16:49, frwa onto <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Martin,

              In my version I did this 

## Monit has an embedded web server which can be used to view status of 

## services monitored and manage services from a web interface. See the

## Monit Wiki if you want to enable SSL for the web server. 

#

 set httpd port 2812 and

     use address localhost  # only accept connection from localhost

     allow localhost        # allow localhost to connect to the server and

     allow admin:monit      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'

#     allow @monit           # allow users of group 'monit' to connect (rw)

#     allow @users readonly  # allow users of group 'users' to connect readonly

#

must I do any other configuration for port 2812 ? Cause I get this error Cannot create socket to [localhost]:2812 -- Connection refused

In my case my centos is bare minimal with got gnome nothing ? 

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

You need to add it to the monit configuration file ... it is part of default configuration file, snip:

--8<--
## Monit has an embedded HTTP interface which can be used to view status of
## services monitored and manage services from a web interface. The HTTP
## interface is also required if you want to issue Monit commands from the
## command line, such as 'monit status' or 'monit restart service' The reason
## for this is that the Monit client uses the HTTP interface to send these
## commands to a running Monit daemon. See the Monit Wiki if you want to
## enable SSL for the HTTP interface.
#
set httpd port 2812 and
    use address localhost  # only accept connection from localhost
    allow localhost        # allow localhost to connect to the server and
    allow admin:monit      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'
--8<--

See monit manual for details.

> On 09 Nov 2015, at 16:30, frwa onto <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin
>              I got this error now when I did this monit start service1 ? Where to add the 'set httpd statement"?
>
> Action start not possible - monit http interface is not enabled, please add the 'set httpd' statement ? Should I start using monit start command or can I use the existing method to start it? Which the correct one?
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> correct syntax is:
>
>         monit start service1
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
> > On 09 Nov 2015, at 16:23, frwa onto <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >     I have set below in my monit.conf.
> >
> > check process service1 with pidfile /var/run/wrapper.service1.pid
> >               start program = "/etc/rc.d/init.d/service1 start" with timeout 60 seconds
> >               stop program = "/etc/rc.d/init.d/service1 stop"
> >
> > I tried to start the service in this manner
> > monit service1 start
> > Invalid argument -- service1 (-h will show valid arguments)
> >
> > So should I start using my existing method where I get into my wrapper folder /usr/local/wra1/bin/ then key in ./startDaemon.sh? I would like to know if I am doing the right thing?
> >
> > Thank  you.
> >
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