Re: Odd monit configuration help...

[Christopher P. Lindsey]

> What I think I want is a way to configure monit so that it knows how to 
> monitor
> every service we run, but only actually have it care about the services that
> are running when monit starts up (it starts last in our boot process).  This
> would let me only have one global monit configuration for the entire cluster,
> and let the computer figure out the local set of things to worry about.
> 
> Is there are way to do this already that I'm missing?

Hi Mark,

I'd say your best bet is to use service-specific configuration
files shared across all servers, like one for ntpd, one for sendmail,
etc.

Then you could write a quick script to create /etc/monitrc before starting
monit.  So if the server detects that it needs to run ntpd and sendmail,
it might generate a monitrc file that looks like

   INCLUDE "/usr/local/etc/monit/sendmail.monitrc"
   INCLUDE "/usr/local/etc/monit/ntpd.monitrc"

The script would probably be quick to write, but definitely OS-specific.
Under RedHat it would be easy to check if something should be running
based on output from chkconfig --list, for example.

Chris