Re: Repeat alerts for CHECK PROGRAM

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 04/12/18 01:29, Guillaume François wrote:
> Hello
>
> On my side I have to do like this as other method never succeed
>
> check program mycheck with path "/var/lib/monit/scripts/mycheck.sh" not 
> every "* 0-16 * * *"
> if status != 0 for 2 cycles then alert
> alert address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> with reminder on 15 cycles
> alert address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> with reminder on 20 
> cycles
> group mygroup
> group sample


Thank you for that - I will try it. It is a bit of a pain though, as all 
of a sudden you have the alert email address spread all over monitrc, 
instead of just one setting at the top which can quickly be amended when 
needed. It seems like a bug to me - I will see if I can flag it up with 
the developers.





> Best Regards,
>
>
> Le lun. 3 déc. 2018 à 22:04, Sebastian Arcus <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> a écrit :
>
>
>     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'
>
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