Re: Basic q's abt monit 4.5.1

[Christian Kowarzik]

Hi Anuj,

anuj agrawal wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Well for my intro i am a newbie in the world of MONIT
> and  hence facing some difficulties using it.
>
> I am using monit 4.5.1 to monitor a certain server
> which is written in java. When the server is up there
> is no pid file generated by it hence i wrote my own
> pid file and i wrote the pid of the server process in
> it.
>
> Once this was done i made an emtry in the monitrc file
> placed in /etc as:
>
> check process server with pidfile /var/run/server.pid
>       start = "............"
>       stop  = "............"
>
> after doing this i started the monit web interface in
> which it was easily recognising and monitoring the
> process "server".It showed the status as running and
> all the required information was correctly displayed.
>
> Now,i pressed the "stop" button and hence the process
> was successfully stopped.
>
> Now comes the problem , when i try to start the server
> through monit it doesnt and shows "execution failed".
>
> Questions i have are:
>
> 1) When starting a service how does monit come to know
> the pid of the process???
by looking in the pid file you specified in the monit.conf like in
'check process server with pidfile /var/run/server.pid'
> 2) Does monit itself places the pid of the started
> process in the pid file??(i.e. updates the pidfile)
no, the proccess you started itself is responsible for placing its pid 
in the pidfile - or your startup script if the proccess itself is not 
able to do so
> Eagerly awaiting replies.
>
> Thanks,
> Anuj

christian
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