RE: Generate a Test Message

[Faine, Mark R. (MSFC-IS40)[NICS]]

That's a good idea too but I prefer the other idea because the goal is to test 
Monit's ability to notify us not that I can send an email from the command 
line, though I admit they are almost the same thing.

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: monit-general <monit-general-bounces+mark.faine=nasa.gov@nongnu.org> On 
Behalf Of Nick Upson
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 11:56
To: This is the general mailing list for monit <monit-general@nongnu.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: Generate a Test Message

Have a cron job that does "monit summary | mail <params>"

-----Original Message-----
From: monit-general <monit-general-bounces+nu=telensa.com@nongnu.org> On Behalf 
Of Ron Kelley
Sent: 10 June 2020 17:53
To: monit-general@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Generate a Test Message

Quick and dirty way:  Setup a cron job to log a message to /var/log/syslog and 
then setup monit to watch for the message.

Example:

/etc/monit.d/monit.conf
------------------------
###############################################################################
# Send daily test message
###############################################################################
check file messages with path /var/log/message
    if match "Daily monit alert" then alert


crontab file
------------------------
0 0 * * * /bin/logger "Daily monit alert"
------------------------


Hope this helps!

-Ron




On 6/10/20 12:48 PM, Faine, Mark R. (MSFC-IS40)[NICS] wrote:
> I am looking for a way to generate a message from Monit as a routine test 
> just to ensure it is working and that we will receive alerts should any be 
> generated.The problem is that if we have it configured properly and things 
> are running well it can be a while before we see any messages from Monit. In 
> this time, it is possible, even if unlikely, that there is a problem with 
> Monit somewhere that has gone unnoticed and when something does happen we 
> won't be notified.In order to prevent this, we are looking for a way to make 
> Monit generate a test notice at least once per day to ensure it is 
> functioning properly. I have googled for this and seen a few ideas for 
> forcing a failure and changing the message but I was hoping that there may be 
> a better way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mark
>

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