Re: [monit] Can mail-format include PID or USERID?

[Martin Pala]

There currently isn't support for PID in the "mail-format" statement. 
Monit provides the environment variable MONIT_PROCESS_PID to the 
start/stop/exec action script - see "Environment" section in monit manual:

http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/manual.php#environment

You can prepare wrapper for the kill script that will either use the 
environment variable or grab the information about the process to be 
killed itself and send the message.


Another option could be to add support for new macros to mail-format. 
Existing macros are described here:
http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/manual.php#alert_message_layout

The addition of new macros should be very easy. The implementation is in 
alert.c in the function substitute(). The event has reference to the 
source service, where you can read both PID, UID and another informations.

Patches are welcomed ;)


Martin




Bill Benedetto wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I use monit kind of backwards from most users, I suspect.  I use
> monit to kill runaway processes.  Obviously, these are processes
> that are known to me to become runaway (so I know what to
> monitor).
>
> This actually works pretty well for me.
>
> However, my developers got wind of this and now would like to
> know WHOSE process it was that was killed.
>
> So, my question is this: is there some way that I can include in
> the alert email the PID that was killed and/or the USERID that
> owned the process that was killed?
>
> Thanks!