Re: Monitoring Snort

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

Monit doesn't support regular expressions on pidfiles

Martin


Tom Pike wrote:
> G'day,
>
>         Our organisation is currently in the process of an infrastructure
> upgrade, part of which includes installing Snort.  We'd like to have
> monit checking snort, and were wondering if it is possible to have monit
> monitor a number of PIDs defined by a regular expression?
>
> Snort provides one PID file for each interface on the system, so is it
> possible to have:
>
> check process snort with pid file "/var/snort/run/*.pid"
>
> I realise that monit would not be monitoring one process but several.
> We wish to retain as generic setup as possible, so we don't want to
> manually specify each PID file if at all possible.
>
>
>                                 Regards,
>
>                                 Tom Pike
>
>
>
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