Re: Some feature notes for monit, volume III

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On Jul 14, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Vlada Macek wrote:

> > From my point of view, it's always good to be able to monitor a 
> > hearbeat
> of something that awakens only when there are problems. Touching the
> file every cycle is IMHO a good and cheap probe at the active tail of
> monit.

Monit write a monit.state file for each cycle. You can check the 
timestamp of this file. If monit hangs for some reasons this file will 
not be updated.

jan-henrik