Re: [monit] monit status PID shows -1

[Brian Downey]

Actually, I've come to discover that 'monit status' is missing a whole  
bunch of stuff...   This is the output from a known-working host:

  status                            running
  monitoring status                 monitored
  load average                      [0.70] [0.29] [0.10]
  cpu                               4.8%us 13.4%sy 1.5%wa
  memory usage                      171276 kB [33.2%]
  data collected                    Fri May  2 12:41:34 2008


And the output from my problem host:

  status                            running
  monitoring status                 monitored
  data collected                    Fri May 2 12:31:37 2008

The top is from a Linux host, and the bottom from my HPUX one.  Both  
sources were configured with resource monitoring.  Am I  
troubleshooting this in vain on HPUX?

Thanks!
Brian

On May 1, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Brian Downey wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Wondering if there is anything I can do about a "problem" we're  
> experiencing with a service being monitored by a pid file.
>
> When running 'monit status', our service comes back showing '-1' as  
> the PID and the Parent PID:
>
> Process 'xci-poll'
> status                  running
> pid                     -1
> parent pid              -1
> uptime                  16m
> data collected          Thu May 1 10:32:49 2008
>
>
> Here is the service definition:
>
> check process xci-poll with pidfile /var/run/xci-poll.pid
> start program = "/etc/init.d/xci-poll start"
> stop program = "/etc/init.d/xci-poll stop"
> if changed pid then restart
>
> Other than showing -1, monit watches and manages the service  
> perfectly.  The only thing semi-unusual is the init.d script exec's  
> to the actual binary, which then becomes owned by init(1).  Standard  
> forking stuff, from what I remember.
>
> Thanks for any insight!
> -Brian
>
>
>
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