RE: [monit] monit not monitoring

[Gilad Benjamini]

1. Standard pid configuration; check process XX with pidfile /var/run/XX.pid
3. No
5. 4.10.1

About question #2: I suspect that this might be related to the problem
I am not sure what the right terminology is, so I'll explain things in my
own words.
I start monit from an /etc/init.d script. The configuration file includes
the two files from /etc/monit.d, realizes that the pid file represents a
dead process, and starts it.
As recommended in the monit faq, I added 'monit stop all' before stopping
monit. A different place in the documentation leads me believe that stopping
a service turns it into an un-monitored service. Combine that with the fact
that some of my machines might have been powered off abruptly, and it might
be that monit somehow stuck in this situation.
Does this make any sense ?

If that's the case, I think I should modify that monit /etc/init.d script,
to run "monit start all" after monit starts.
Does THIS make sense ?

TIA
Gilad

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> Subject: Re: [monit] monit not monitoring
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> There's too little informations provided to say what's the root cause.
> 
> 1.) What's the configuration of these services?
> 
> 2.) Are they monitored automatically or do you use manual monitring
> mode?
> 
> 3.) Do you use any timeout or unmonitor statement on excessive number
> of errors?
> 
> 4.) Please also run monit in verbose mode (-v option) and check logs.
> 
> 5.) What Monit version it is?
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
> 
> 
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Gilad Benjamini wrote:
> 
> > I am using monit to monitor two applications with pid files.
> > During stress tests, I start up 25 machines, all running the same
> > image.
> > They differ in a few not-monit-related configuration files, such as
> IP
> > address and security identity.
> > On 3-5 of the machines, the applications simply don't start.
> > /var/log/messages shows "Monit has not changed" and nothing else.
> > monit status shows me both applications as not monitored.
> >
> > Any ideas how to even start investigating this ?
> >
> >
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