Re: start and stop process by monit

[Kenneth Yip]

Thanks.

Regards,
Kenneth Yip

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan-Henrik Haukeland" <address@hidden>
To: "This is the general mailing list for monit" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: start and stop process by monit


> "Kenneth Yip" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I have some questions about how monit start and stop 
> > a monitored process - Does monit relies on the
> > return code to determine whether a process
> > startup / shutdown failed?
> 
> No, monit does _not_ relies on the return code. Monit calls execve(2)
> to execute a program, this function does not return if exec
> succeeded. Because execve may succeed but the program may not, monit
> use the following method in addition to verify that a process was
> started; monit checks that a pid file was created and that the pid
> file contains a running process.
> 
> > For example, if the return code of the startup
> > script is '1', but it actually did startup the process
> > to be monitored successfully, will monit consider the 
> > startup as failed?
> 
> No
> 
> > Also, how monit detects a shutdown of a process
> > failed? Check whether the pid file still exists or
> > some other method?
> 
> The same as above but reversed, if execve did not succeed or if the
> process is still running (after poll seconds).
> 
> > I raised the questions because of an incident last night
> > where monit reported failure to shutdown a monitored
> > process. From the message log, monit only attempted to
> > shutdown the process once and after the shutdown failed,
> > it did nothing further. Monit have timeout on restart, but does it 
> > has timeout on stopping or starting services?
> 
> This happened because upon process stop, monit first set the process
> in unmonitoring mode (because if it was stopped monit should not start
> it again in a later poll cycle). Then monit goes on with the shutdown
> process outlined above, if this fails monit sends an alert "Failed to
> stop ...". (You will *only* get this alert if you have registered
> alert notification in the service entry in .monitrc.) Since the
> process was set in unmonitoring mode, monit will not do anything more
> with the process.
> 
> If you really want to make sure that a process was stopped, you can in
> the stop program or in the script monit calls to stop the process, add
> code that kills the process with SIGKILL if graceful termination did
> not succeed. (Of course, this could instead be implemented in monit,
> i.e. if monit failed to stop a process it sends SIGKILL to the process
> as it's final action, but I think this decision should be done in the
> stop program monit calls and not by monit).
> 
> -- 
> Jan-Henrik Haukeland
> 
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