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Re: [monit] Testing mysql for more than connectivity?


From: Chanchal James
Subject: Re: [monit] Testing mysql for more than connectivity?
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 16:45:03 -0500

Martin, if the anonymous login is password protected, is there anyway to specify that in monit config for mysql ?


On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi,

monit's mysql protocol test can perform mysql ping. The usage is (for example):


 if failed port 3306 protocol mysql then alert


The "protocol mysql" option performs following test sequence:

1.) TCP connect to 3306
2.) if connect succeeded, perform anonymous login to mysql
3.) if login succeeded, perform mysql ping


Any response to mysql login (allow or deny) is handled as protocol success, since when the login was rejected, monit assumes that anonymous login is not allowed and since mysql responded, it's working.

The mysql ping is used only if anonymous login passed.


>From praxis these tests are sufficient to see whether mysql responds to queries.



Martin




Phillip B Oldham wrote:
We're finding problems with the way monit is bringing mysql back up after restarting.

Occasionally, our mysql server will hit >98% CPU time for a sustained period. We have a rule in monit which will restart mysql after any odd behaviour, and when this happens we find that occasionally mysql is brought up and accepts connections but not queries.

I'm wondering whether there's any way to test with monit that mysql is executing queries properly? From the command-line I can execute the following:

mysql -e "show databases"

which will return a result if mysql is ok, or will return a string starting with "ERROR" if there's a problem.

Based on this information, would it be possible to test if mysql is accepting queries with monit?
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