Re: [Announce] monit 4.3 released

[Martin Pala]

Andrea Pagani wrote:
> > This is a feature and bugfix release. The most important change in 
> > this release is the refactoring of event engine, which allows to send 
> > alert and/or do optional action in the case that the monitored service 
> > recovered from the failed state.
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> When you say "and/or do optional action", do you mean that mail alerting 
> can be disabled/substituted by other types of actions, like SNMP 
> traps??? In this case, is it possible to disable mail alerting???

Yes - just omit the alert recipient definition (i.e. don't add 'alert 
...' or 'set alert ...' option to the monit control file).

> > For example, you can use this feature to send SNMP trap in the case 
> > that the service is up again (via snmptrap exec) in addition to failed 
> > state related action (for example SNMP trap as well) which was 
> > supported in previous releases. The action is optional - monit will 
> > send alert notification about any service state change by default.
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> Is there some sort of native support for SNMP or the only way to do some 
> SNMP action is to use the EXEC statement (triggering some SNMP tools 
> CLI)???

There is no native support for SNMP yet, you can use monit exec action 
with utility like snmptrap to generate the SNMP event.

We are working on m/monit, which will provide support for central 
monitoring management of monit and SNMP agents, events, history, SLA, 
central configuration, etc. ;)

Cheers,
Martin