Protocol options for mysql server

[Sergio Trejo]

Hello, 

I have noticed some previous messages in this list about monit and
mysql server. 

I have a mysql server instance running and even though I do not have
networking turned off explicitly in my.cnf, I am not allowing anonymous connections on port 3306. 

Someone very helpful several months ago (Martin I think?) responded to a
previous person on the mailing list and said:

> There are also specific protocol tests (such as mysql for example) which
> are testing more details - for example mysql test tries to login as
> anonymous user and if succeeded then performs mysql ping as well.
>
> You can enable it using the 'protocol' option in the port or unix socket
> rule:
>
>   if failed port 3306 protocol mysql then alert

Since I am not allowing anonymous logins, all I want to do is test the mysql daemon with
a "ping", so I am wondering what protocol should I use in my monit configuration file instead of the protocol named "mysql"? In other words, replace the word "mysql" in the configuration line below with ???

>    if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 3306 protocol mysql then restart

Do I also need any "depends" lines in the configuration for merely "pinging" the mysql server daemon? Thank you for very much for any suggestions!

Cheers,

Serg