RE: problem in installing monit on Red Hat Linux version - Fedoracore release 3

[Navin Kumar]

Hi Martin 
Thanks for your help on monit tool. I am getting more comfortable with
this day by day. Could you tell me following points:-
1. How can I access and use monit admin web page to start and stop a
particular service.
2. How can monit be used to display the uptime of different services.
Thanks
Navin

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Subject: Re: problem in installing monit on Red Hat Linux version -
Fedoracore release 3

I think it is already documented:

--8<--
GENERAL OPERATION
...
In addition to the options above, monit can be started with one
of the following action arguments; monit will then execute the
action and exit without transforming itself to a daemon.

start all
    Start all services listed in the control file and
    enable monitoring for them. If the group option is
    set, only start and enable monitoring of services in
    the named group.
...
--8<--

and:

--8<--
DAEMON MODE
...
Simply invoking

   monit -d 300

will poll all services described in your ~/.monitrc file every 5
minutes.
...
--8<--


There is also the presentation which shows how to start monit in daemon 
mode using just 'monit' command:

http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/monit.pdf


Martin

Navin Kumar wrote:
> Great!!!!!
> Monit is now working fine. Actually one needs to give 'monit start
all'
> command first to start all serviced and then the 'monit' command to
> start
> monit daemon.
> Thanks for the quick update.
> Martin, I have one suggestion here. The monit manual at url
> http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/manual.php does not mention this
> point
> at all that one has to execute only 'monit' to start monit daemon. The
> document says that one should either specify -d option or use set
daemon
> instruction in control file to start monit as daemon. This point
should
> be included in the doc also. What do you say?
> Again thanks a lot for the quick update.
> Thanks
> Navin
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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On
> Behalf Of Martin Pala
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:53 PM
> To: This is the general mailing list for monit
> Subject: Re: problem in installing monit on Red Hat Linux version -
> Fedoracore release 3
> 
> Please run exactly this command without any additional argument:
> 
>    monit -c /home/ritesh/monit-4.6/monitrc
> 
> When you want to start monit in daemon mode, you must *not* use any 
> argument. Look for example on the monit init script:
> 
>
http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/monit/monit/contri
> b/rc.monit?rev=1.10
> 
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> Navin Kumar wrote:
> 
>>Hi Ben
>>Thanks for quick update. 
>>I am attaching the monitrc control file which I am using.
>>I am also attaching the things I get on console when I start monit
> 
> with
> 
>>verbose option. It confirms the starting of monit in daemon mode.
>>I have already set the logfile as specified by you but it does not
> 
> show
> 
>>any error on start. Monit starts without error but when I do 'monit
>>status' it gives me - 'monit: no status available -- the monit daemon
> 
> is
> 
>>not running'.
>>Thanks
>>Navin
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
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>>[mailto:address@hidden
> 
> On
> 
>>Behalf Of Ben Hartshorne
>>Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:23 PM
>>To: This is the general mailing list for monit
>>Subject: Re: problem in installing monit on Red Hat Linux version -
>>Fedoracore release 3
>>
>>On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:05:15PM +0530, Navin Kumar wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello
>>>I am trying to run Monit on Red Hat Linux version - Fedora core
>>>release 3.  I extracted the downloaded gunzip file and then ran
>>>./configure, make and make install. All these steps executes fine
>>>without any error. It creates an executable monit under
/usr/local/bin
>>>as per documentation. After this I start monit with command 'monit -v
>>>start all' in daemon mode. The verbose confirms the starting in the
>>>daemon mode. The start does not show any error.  But when I do 'monit
>>>status' or 'monit summary' I get: monit daemon is not  running. This
>>>is a problem as to why monit fails to run as daemon. I read the
>>>documentation of monit about platforms. It does not mention any such
>>>problem.  But I see this as some compatability problem with the Linux
>>>platform I am using.  It seems that that the monit script fails on
>>>trying to run monit as daemon on OS.  I am clueless because start
does
>>>show any error. Can someone suggest the reason of the problem.  
>>>Thanks Navin
>>
>>
>>Navin,
>>
>>I run monit on fedora core3 without any trouble.
>>
>>Could you post your /etc/monitrc file, so that we may see if it is a
>>configuration issue?
>>
>>You could also add "set logfile /var/log/monit.log" to your monitrc to
>>enable logging - it might give you more information.
>>
>>-ben
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>>Runtime constants:
>> Control file       = /home/ritesh/monit-4.6/monitrc
>> Log file           = /var/log/monit
>> Pid file           = /var/run/monit.pid
>> Debug              = True
>> Log                = True
>> Use syslog         = False
>> Is Daemon          = True
>> Use process engine = True
>> Poll time          = 120 seconds
>> Mail server(s)     = mailserver.induslogic.com, localhost
>> Mail from          = address@hidden
>> Mail subject       = monit alert --  $EVENT $SERVICE
>> Mail message       = $EVENT Service $SERV..(truncated)
>> Start monit httpd  = False
>> Alert mail to      = address@hidden
>> Alert on           = All events
>>
>>The service list contains the following entries:
>>
>>Process Name          = apache
>> Group                = (not defined)
>> Pid file             = /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid
>> Monitoring mode      = active
>> Start program        = /etc/init.d/httpd start
>> Stop program         = /etc/init.d/httpd stop
>> Pid                  = if changed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then
> 
> alert
> 
>> Ppid                 = if changed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then
> 
> alert
> 
>> Port                 = if failed localhost:80 [protocol DEFAULT] with
> 
> timeout 5 seconds 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert else if passed
1
> times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
> 
>> Alert mail to        = address@hidden
>> Alert on             = All events
>>
>>File Name             = navin.log
>> Group                = (not defined)
>> Path                 = /home/ritesh/navin.log
>> Monitoring mode      = active
>> Size                 = if changed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then exec
>> Size                 = if changed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then
> 
> alert
> 
>> Alert mail to        = address@hidden
>> Alert on             = All events
>>
>>
> 
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------
> 
>>monit: Process already running -- process apache
>>
>>
>>
> 
>
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