Re: monitoring status patch (Oliver's patch from 3.2.2003)

[Martin Pala]

Oliver Jehle wrote:

> -1 for the do_validate... 
>
> i think, monit should always monitor a process when its running... 
>
> if monit dies and restarts all processes are in status not monitoring
> already running and thats bad. 
>
>  
Monit supports both behaviors - if you want to monitor the process 
forever (regardless of the failure rate) you don't need to use 'timeout' 
statement.

If the process reaches erroneous state and monit detects the failure say 
3 times of every 5 attempts, you will be noted about every failure every 
monit cycle, which for someone isn't suitable - you know that the 
process reached 'hard' error and it makes no sense to monitor it until 
it will be solved by hand.

For such cases (or deployments) is 'timeout' statement here. If you will 
use it, monit will stop monitoring after custom failure ratio is 
reached. It is important to keep the state of monitoring (do_validate 
flag) between monit reloads for this purpose.

If you don't use timeout statement, monit will never disable monitoring 
(don' have any reason for it) and in that case is assertion "monitor 
every running process" correct.

Cheers,
Martin