Re: Optionally monitoring, depending on local config?

[Andreas Rust]

At 22:24 23.09.2004, you wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>         I've just started looking at monit, and it looks very useful.
> I'd like to deploy it onto bunch of machines, but they're all running
> different combinations of services.  Some have httpd and sendmail,
> some just httpd, some just smbd, etc..  Is it possible to use one
> monit configuration for all the machines?
>
>         Ideally, I'd like to be able to build tests into monit's
> configuration file, of the form:
>
>         if fileexists /etc/rc.d/S85httpd then
>                 check process apache with pidfile 
> /opt/apache_misc/logs/httpd.pid
>         .....
>         endif
>
> or
>
>         if `chkconfig sendmail` then
>                 check process sendmail with pidfile /var/run/sendmail.pid
>         ....
>         endif
>
> Is anything like this possible?

Why not simply do something like this at the end of the monit conf file:

include /etc/monitrc.d/*

and have in monitrc.d the snippets a separarte files per service deployed.

If the machine has httpd, ftp and email, I have 3 files with just those 
snippets there.
(Along with some basic services which are always checked.)

l8r


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