Re: Repeat alerts for CHECK PROGRAM

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 03/12/18 20:55, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am struggling to configure Monit to repeat alerts for the CHECK 
> PROGRAM stanza. I have in my global section:
>
> SET ALERT <my_email> WITH REMINDER ON 720 CYCLES
>
> then further down:
>
> CHECK PROGRAM sa-update WITH PATH "/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/sa-update'"
>     IF STATUS > 1 FOR 3 CYCLES THEN ALERT
>
> This only sends an alert once when the return status changes for 
> 'sa-update' - but doesn't send further reminders. The documentation and 
> online examples seem to suggest that I should keep on getting regular 
> alerts while sa-update returns status higher then 1. But I don't. The 
> daily reminders work fine though for the other types of checks - such as 
> CHECK HOST.
>
> I have tried to add "WITH REMINDER ON ..." - but Monit doesn't like that 
> syntax - although there is one example using it in the online docs.

Apologies - the above is incorrect. I meant to say I've tried the 
following syntax from the docs:

CHECK PROGRAM sa-update WITH PATH "/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/sa-update'"
   IF STATUS > 1 FOR 3 CYCLES THEN ALERT REPEAT EVERY 720 CYCLES

and Monit doesn't accept it - it doesn't seem to like the word REPEAT:

    /etc/monitrc:164: syntax error 'REPEAT'