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

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 7. apr. 2006, at 23.40, Peter M. Abraham wrote:

> 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?

If you can hook shell commands into the H-Sphere restart routine you  
can disable monitoring of apache while H-Sphere restart and enable it  
afterwards. Simply call; 'monit unmonitor apache' and 'monit monitor  
apache'

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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