Re: Need help with monit script

[Martin Pala]

There is no native support for this - monit will send alert on first 
error currently. We plan to add support for custom error levels and 
related actions (i.e. do different actions based on error ratio) in the 
future.

However you can use monit 'exec' action to call script which will count 
errors and cycles and do appropriate action (e.g. alert) based on error 
severity/recurrence.

Example:

--8<--
 check host server1 with address 1.2.3.4
  if failed icmp type echo with timeout 15 seconds
  then exec "/path/to/my/event_handler"
--8<--

You can use environment variables (see manual - for example 
http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/monit.html#environment) in the 
event_handler script to see what happened and to do what you need (e.g. 
wait for two recurrent events before sending alert from this script, etc.)

Martin

Richie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to configure monit so that it'll trigger the alert if 
> there are 2 consecutive icmp failures (within 2 cycles)?
>
> check host SERVER1 with address 192.168.0.1
>     if failed icmp type echo with timeout 15 seconds
>         then alert
>     alert address@hidden
>         with mail-format {
>               from:     address@hidden
>               subject:  $EVENT - $ACTION
>       }
>
> Thanks,
> R-