Re: [monit] monit config

[Aleksander Kamenik]

Maxim Veksler wrote:

> Mind posting one of them? I have a production server alerting me each
> night at 5:17 about CPU load because the is archiving files, haven't
> really found the time to add monit resource monitoring disable
> section.

I meant monit does not alert me on "monit unmonitor whatever". It 
doesn't by default and I don't know if it can be made to do that.

I use "monit unmonitor zebox" in the beginning of the backup or whatever 
script and at the end have "sleep 5m && monit monitor zebox". The sleep 
is for the 5 minute load average to normalize and other stats to drop to 
normal levels.

zebox is something like this, simple example:

check system zebox
        if loadavg (1min) > 2 then alert
        if loadavg (5min) > 1 then alert
        if memory usage > 99% then alert
        if cpu usage (user) > 95% then alert
        if cpu usage (system) > 45% then alert
        if cpu usage (wait) > 40% then alert


You could also put the "monit unmonitor" and "monit monitor" stuff into 
cron next to your backup scripts, something like this:

30 2 * * * root source /etc/profile && monit unmonitor zebox && sh 
/opt/my/backup.sh && sleep 5m && monit monitor zebox

HTH,

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