With monit, do I have to worry about monit causing cascading failures?

[Peter M. Abraham]

Greetings:

We use H-Sphere -- http://www.psoft.net/ -- to automate our hosting 
environment.

H-Sphere already has routines in place to do a graceful restart of 
Apache due to httpd.conf changes.

Is there a way to tell monit that Apache is not really down if monit 
just happens to do its check when the automation system is already in 
the process of restarting Apache?

Please note, I'm not talking about having checks for httpd.conf 
changes in monit, but the general up/down state of Apache.

Thank you for your time.