[monit] Monit believes web service is up even when it is not

[Balcoes]

Hi

 

I have monit v5.0 and CentOS release 4.8 (Final).

 

I try monitor Lotus Domino web server with the following config file:

    check host myserver with address myserver

        start program  "/etc/init.d/domino start" with timeout 300 seconds

        stop program   "/etc/init.d/domino stop"  with timeout 150 seconds

        if failed host 192.168.1.10 port 80 protocol http 10 times within 10 cycles then restart

        if 6 restarts within 60 cycles then timeout

 

If the web server is up, monit status page shows:

  Remote Host 'myserver'

    status                            online with all services

    monitoring status                 monitored

    port response time                0.001s to 192.168.1.10:80 [HTTP via TCP]

    data collected                    Thu Nov  5 20:09:55 2009

as it should.

 

However if the server is down, monit states:

  Remote Host 'myserver'

    status                            online with all services

    monitoring status                 monitored

    port response time                -1.000s to 192.168.1.10:80 [HTTP via TCP]

    data collected                    Thu Nov  5 20:10:57 2009

 

I.e. the only difference is that port response time is -1.000s. But monit believes that the server is up and doesn’t try to reboot it. How come? What am I missing?

 

B

 

P.S: The config file doesn’t use PID file as Domino doesn’t have a single process. Instead it spawns typically approximately 200 processes.