Re: Suspend checking during startup of a process

[Martin Pala]

Monit waits for the process to start up to one cycle length timeframe. 
When the process starts (appears in process table), monit will test 
specific process features given by testing rules (such as port test) 
next cycle. I.e. the wait_start window ends as soon as the process is 
running.

However, when for example the process delays the service until internal 
recovery will finish (such as database transaction log check), monit 
can't know that the service is delayed and will report (correctly) that 
the process' services are not available.

If this is your case too, i think you can use the workaround: unmonitor 
the process service on error + define another file service test type on 
process' pidfile. Use pidfile timestamp test so, that in the case that 
the timestamp is older then the interval you need for service to recover 
monit will enable the process service monitoring.

It may be possible that in the future there will be on option to wait 
for specific timeframe before service test ... i think Rory implemented 
it long time ago

Martin


Peter van der Does wrote:
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> We would like to do the following:
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> Check a process every 1 cycle, when the check fails restart the process.
> The trick is the restarting of the process takes longer as 1 cycle and
> so we want to suspend the checking with monit for lets say 3 cycles.
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> Any idea's on how to do this?
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> Peter
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