Re: Possible to disable alerting

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

> On 17 Jul 2019, at 00:00, David Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to disable alerting for a single check?  For example, I have a 
> check to watch for a timestamp of a folder to change to take some action but 
> it's not really a problem.  

If you use Monit alerts, you can add a local alert filter like so to filter out 
timestamp events, same for other events

check directory tmp with path /tmp/
    if changed timestamp then exec “/restart/some/process.sh"
    alert address@hidden not on { timestamp } 


> I don't want monit sending an alert back to M/monit or show red/critical in 
> this case but simply restart a process.

Monit will still send the change event to M/Monit, that can’t be suppressed. If 
you use the 'if changed’ type check, M/Monit will first show orange for the 
status, but unless the timestamp was changed, it will show green on next report 
from Monit. If you use M/Monit for alerts (recommended and then the alert 
statement above can be removed) you can set it up to not alert on timestamp.

Jan-Henrik