start program only works with "wrapper" script

[johng]

hi all,

so we are running monit version:

/usr/bin/monit -V
This is Monit version 5.12.2
Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Tildeslash Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

on:

cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)

and it is pretty cool!  it is allowing us to monitor the application 
health of some java tomcat applications we have through calling some curl 
checks we have in a bash script.

what is not quite working correctly is the start aspect of the program. 
sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it brings up 
java/tomcat but certain aspects of the application don't work.  quite 
puzzling... i have been looking at logs, writing wrapper scripts and 
googling extensively but have not come to a definitive reason as to why 
the start program only works when i preface it with a wrapper script.  any 
light you guys could shed on this would be most welcome!  oh, also of note 
is that the "stop" program facet of the monitrc file always works.  i can 
see the java/tomcat processes disappear from the process list but it is 
the start that bombs.

our monitrc files look like so:

cat /etc/monitrc
# /etc/monit.conf
#

set daemon 60

set httpd port 2812
    allow blah:bleh
    allow localhost
    allow xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24

set logfile /opt/company/log/monit/adm001

include /opt/company/etc/monit/*.monitrc

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then the include file looks like so:

check process wbm003 with pidfile /var/run/jsvc1.pid

start program "/usr/bin/sudo /fusionone/bin/monit_wrapper.sh 
/fusionone/bin/f1 -v start" with timeout 170 seconds

stop program "/usr/bin/sudo /fusionone/bin/monit_wrapper.sh 
/fusionone/bin/f1 -v stop" with timeout 170 seconds

  if not exist for 3 cycles then alert

        mode passive

check program wbm003_program with path 
"/fusionone/bin/check_wbm_cua.sh" with timeout 10 seconds
  if status != 0 then alert

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the wrapper script is just this:

cat /fusionone/bin/monit_wrapper.sh
#!/bin/sh
{
  echo "MONIT-WRAPPER date"
  date
  echo "MONIT-WRAPPER env"
  env
  echo "MONIT-WRAPPER $@"
  $@
  R=$?
  echo "MONIT-WRAPPER exit code $R"
  echo "MONIT-WRAPPER --------------------------------------------"
} >>/tmp/monit.log 2>&1

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but what i don't understand is if i get rid of the wrapper script in the 
start program, the program does not start or only partially starts.

so this doesn't work:

start program "/usr/bin/sudo /fusionone/bin/f1 -v start" with timeout 170 
seconds

but this does:

start program "/usr/bin/sudo /fusionone/bin/monit_wrapper.sh 
/fusionone/bin/f1 -v start" with timeout 170 seconds

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thank you,

baffled in seattle.