Re: Non-email alerts

[Alex Litvak]

Right now alert is being send implicitly  on start / restart.  Is there 
a way to do restart + alert exec then?

I want process to restart and notify service foo by a custom protocol.  
I can, as an option, create an exec script to do restart and notify.  
However there is a known issue with using exec for restart which will 
probably be fixed with a new scheduling engine implemented.   The other 
option for me would be to write a wrapper for a  start up script of  
each program I monitor.  I would rather have an alert setting to execute 
something passing the monit information to it

alert option exec foo

So foo could get process id of failed program, process / command name, 
error message text, ... etc

Thanks,


On 05/29/2014 10:09 AM, Martin Pala wrote:
> Such mechanism is in place already ... see the "exec" action.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
> On 29 May 2014, at 17:00, Sergey Maslyakov <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > What would it take to extend the alerting system to allow for an external 
> > program to run in response to the alert condition? This way, alerts can be 
> > anything: SNMP traps, alarms in an operations and administration management 
> > system, etc.
> >
> > Email is a good notification mechanism but it is a pretty narrow use case in 
> > more elaborate management systems.
> >
> > Maybe there is a way to harvest the "event queue" on disk by an external 
> > application?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > /Sergey
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