Re: multiple servers

[Pavel Urban]

Michael Steinfeld wrote:
> Hi --
>
> This question has probably been asked many times, but ..
>
> If I have 6 web servers that I want to monitor, do I have to install
> monit on each of them? I have searched around, and I see how to use
> monit for a single server but can someone point me to a doc on setting
> up multiple server monitoring or if it's possible...
>
> thanks,
> mike

It depends on what you want to monitor and which actions you want to do. 
IF you just want to monitor if a given service responds and send alerts, 
you can monitor remote port 80. You are losing other possibilites, 
though - you cannot restart the service in case of failure, you cannot 
monitor memory/cpu consumption, you may encounter false alerts due to 
inter-connectivity problems etc.

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