Re: [monit] Remote failure triggers local program

[Martin Pala]

If the remote program can be remotely monitored (for example it is 
listening on some port and providing service), you can use host check:

  check host myhost with address 10.1.1.2
    if failed port 1234 then exec "/foo/bar start"

If the remote program is not providing any network service, then the 
monit instance running on remote host could trigger action for local 
monit host via http interface.

We'll also support calling actions on other monit agents when some event 
occurred on one monit agent via M/Monit (http://www.mmonit.com). It 
supports rules where it will be possible to say that if for example 
"oracle" failed on host "a" then start "oracle" on host "b".

Martin


Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I'd like to be able to fire off a local program only if a remote program goes 
> down.  How do I set up monit to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dimitri