Re: [monit] monitor checksum and timestamp

[Martin Pala]

Matthias Teege wrote:
> > In you case it could be possible to simplify the test probably to use 
> > timestamp only?
>
> I'm not sure how to check this.
>
> check file fluff_conf with path /etc/fluff.conf
>  if timestap < 30 minutes
>    then exec "/bin/backup fluff.conf"
>
> will probably backup the file more then one time.
>
> Many thanks
> Matthias


That's true ... to fix this, you can set the service to be checked just 
once per 30 minutes - you can skip cycles using the "every <x> cycles" 
statements.

For example if monit is set to check every minute (60s), you can skip 30 
cycles (i.e. 30 minutes):

--8<--
set daemon 60

check file fluff_conf with path /etc/fluff.conf
 every 30 cycles
 if changed checksum then exec "/bin/backup fluff.conf"
--8<--

=> the test will be evaluated once per 30 minutes and if the checksum 
changed, the backup will be performed.


Martin