Re: is monit just a pain in the arse or what ?

[andrew taylor]

Ryan Dooley wrote:
> On 7/26/07 6:03 PM, "andrew taylor" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   
> > Normally, when I ask monit for status, I get this...
> >
> > address@hidden:~# monit summary
> > monit: cannot read status from the monit daemon
> >
> > This happens constantly and is frustrating and useless.
> >
> >
> >
> > When I do get data, it tells me something like this...
> >
> > Process 'rails_mongrel_9200' Execution failed
> > Process 'rails_mongrel_9201' Execution failed
> > Process 'rails_job' running
> > Process 'rails_mailer' Execution failed
> >
> >
> > uhh...not quite, if I ps, all the processes are running, all the pids
> > are there, everything is fine.
> >     
>
> Would you mind posting your monitrc for your apps and your /etc/monitrc if
> they are different?  Properly sanitized of course :-)
>
> For what it is worth, I do monitor puppet (well puppetmasterd) on a
> particular host and it works quite well.  Tomorrow, if it'd help any, I'll
> filter mine back to this list.
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan
>
>
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Sure, here is the monitrc.

#===== basic setup
set daemon 60
set httpd port 2812 and allow admin:test
set logfile /var/log/monit.log

#===== include other configs
include /etc/monit/includes/*

#===== mysql
check process mysql
   with pidfile "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid"
   start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start"
   stop  program = "/etc/init.d/mysql stop"
   group system
   if failed port 3306 protocol mysql then restart
     
#===== apache
check process apache
   with pidfile "/var/run/apache2.pid"
   start program = "/etc/init.d/apache2 start"
   stop  program = "/etc/init.d/apache2 stop"
   group system
  
#===== sshd
check process sshd
   with pidfile "/var/run/sshd.pid"
   start program = "/etc/init.d/ssh start"
   stop  program = "/etc/init.d/ssh stop"
   group system
   if failed port 22 protocol ssh then restart
     
#===== cron
check process cron
   with pidfile "/var/run/crond.pid"
   start program = "/etc/init.d/cron start"
   stop  program = "/etc/init.d/cron stop"
   group system
  
#===== samba
check process smbd
   with pidfile /var/run/samba/smbd.pid
   start program = "/etc/init.d/samba start"
   stop  program = "/etc/init.d/samba stop"
   group system
   if failed port 139 type TCP  then restart
  
#===== samba
check process nmbd
   with pidfile "/var/run/samba/nmbd.pid"
   start program = "/etc/init.d/samba start"
   stop  program = "/etc/init.d/samba stop"
   group system
   if failed port 138 type UDP  then restart
   if failed port 137 type UDP  then restart
  
#===== vmware
check process guestd
  with pidfile "/var/run/vmware-guestd.pid"
  start program = "/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start"
  stop  program = "/etc/init.d/vmware-tools stop"
  group system

#==== rails_toucan_myfavcreditunion_mongrel_9200
check process rails_toucan_myfavcreditunion_mongrel_9200
   with pidfile "/home/me/workspace/app1/log/mongrel.9200.pid"
   start program = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails start -P 
/home/me/workspace/app1/log/mongrel.9100.pid -d -e production -p 9200 -c 
/home/me/workspace/app1 -t 30" as uid me and gid me
   stop program  = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails stop  -P 
/home/me/workspace/app1/log/mongrel.9100.pid"
   group app1
   if mem usage > 50% then restart
   
#==== app1_mongrel_9201
check process app1_mongrel_9201
   with pidfile "/home/me/workspace/app1/log/mongrel.9201.pid"
   start program = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails start -P 
/home/me/workspace/app1/log/mongrel.9101.pid -d -e production -p 9201 -c 
/home/me/workspace/app1 -t 30" as uid me and gid me
   stop program  = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails stop  -P 
/home/me/workspace/app1/log/mongrel.9101.pid"
   group app1
   if mem usage > 50% then restart

#==== app1_jobs
check app1_jobs
   with pidfile    "/home/me/workspace/app1/app/daemons/job_daemon.rb.pid"
   start program = "/home/me/workspace/app1/app/daemons/job_control.rb 
start -f" as uid me and gid me
   stop program =  "/home/me/workspace/app1/app/daemons/job_control.rb 
stop  -f"
   group app1
   if mem usage > 50% then restart