Re: Global set alert does not work with included files

[Martin Pala]

Hello,

i looked on it but i don't understand what is your problem. The examples 
don't contain mentioned 'address@hidden', thus i'm not sure what was 
your intent.

When you set global alert, monit will use it for any corresponding event 
for any service.

Your statement:

 set alert address@hidden

should cause monit to deliver any event type alert for any service to 
'address@hidden' address. Because the outgoing 'from:' was not 
specified, monit will use 'address@hidden' as outgoing address.

Alert statement definition which is local (i.e. defined directly in 
particular service check) has precedence over global, in the case that 
the recipient match. Because you used such a configuration, the line in:

 check process Mysql ...
   ...
   alert address@hidden
     with mail-format { from: address@hidden }

will override the global alert for the same recipient - the only 
difference is the outgoing address.

Maybe your qmail doesn't allow the outgoing address of the form 
'address@hidden' where $HOST is result of gethostname() call or just 
'localhost'?

Martin


Francois FOURRIER wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> thanks for this cool monit program !
>
> I have some hard time making a global email alert to work.
>
> My /etc/monitrc file lools like :
> ###########################
> set daemon     120
> set logfile    syslog
> set mailserver 127.0.0.1
> set alert address@hidden
>
> set httpd port 2812
>         ssl     enable
>         pemfile "/etc/monit/mycert.pem"
>         allowselfcertification
>         allow admin:xxxxxx
>
> include /etc/monit/cron
> include /etc/monit/syslog-ng
> ...
>
> An so on....
> ###########################
>
> The trouble is that when an event occurs my qmail-send log output this :
> starting delivery 597: msg 4237878 to remote address@hidden
>
> Which obviously means that monit did not use the default email adress...
>
> The only solution i've found is to include the alert opion inside each file
> like this :
>
> /etc/monit/mysqld
> ###########################
>
> check process Mysql with pidfile /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
>     start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start"
>     stop  program = "/etc/init.d/mysql stop"
>     group database
>     if failed unix "/tmp/mysql.sock" then restart
>     alert address@hidden with mail-format { from: address@hidden
> }
>     if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
>     depends mysqld_init
>     depends mysqld_bin
>     depends mysqldsafe_bin
>
> check file mysqld_init with path /etc/init.d/mysql
>     group database
>
> check file mysqld_bin with path /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld
>     group database
>
> check file mysqldsafe_bin with path /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe
>     group database
> ###########################
>
> Then it works... But I have to manually insert this option in each included
> file wich is not cool at all...
>
> I can't find what is wrong here...
>
> Do you have any hints ?
>
> Thanks
>
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