Re: Delaying tests for a number of cycles

[Martin Pala]

Monit supports the dependency for such situations (the 'depends on' 
statement).

Currently there is just soft dependency, hard dependency option is planned.

Martin

MosheC wrote:
> Thanks.
> The workaround is not enough in general. It is not always a case of starting
> a service. For example, I check files and directories that are created and
> initialized by processes yet to be invoked and they might depend on some
> other factors. I would like the checks to start only in , let's say, 10
> cycles.
>
> Moshe
>
>
> Martin Pala wrote:
> > If monit is starting the process, then it expects that the next 
> > monitoring cycle will be the service running otherwise it reports error.
> >
> > This behavior cannot be changed currently, but i added the todo item for
> > it:
> > http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/next.php#38
> >
> > As a workaround you can set your monitoring cycle so, that the service 
> > will have time enough to start.
> >
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > MosheC wrote:
> > > With "every N cycles" we can lower the test frequency.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to only delay the first test for a number of cycles and
> > > then
> > > continue normally or possibly delay only the alerts.
> > >
> > > I have a lot of alerts when I start monit that are a result of the new
> > > processes being invoked by monit. It is just noise. I would like to get
> > > alerts only after I have reached "steady state" and then the alerts will
> > > really mean something "bad" happened.
> > >
> > > Moshe
> >
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