Re: [monit] monit ignoring "set alert"

[Martin Pala]

There's no mailserver in your configuration, so monit don't know how to 
deliver the message. See the "set mailserver" statement in monit manual.

Martin

Simon Christian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently installed monit and written myself a basic configuration 
> for it (see below). However monit seems to be ignoring the email address 
> I entered for the "set alert" statement and is still sending alerts to 
> address@hidden I was wondering if I've made a simple mistake or if there's 
> something else going on.
>
> I have configured and built monit on Linux RH 9.
>
> Thank you for your help in advance.
>
> Simon
>
> My monitrc file:
>
> set daemon 120
> set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
> set alert address@hidden
>
> check host server1 with address server1.domain.com.au
>    if failed icmp type echo count 5 with timeout 15 seconds then alert
>    if failed port 25 protocol smtp then alert
>
> check host server2 with address server2.domain.com.au
>    if failed icmp type echo count 5 with timeout 15 seconds then alert
>    if failed port 25 protocol smtp then alert
>
> check host server3 with address server3.domain.com.au
>    if failed icmp type echo count 5 with timeout 15 seconds then alert
>    if failed port 25 protocol smtp then alert
>
>
>
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