[monit] monit 5 sends alert on monitor/unmonitor

[Aleksander Kamenik]

Hi,

I just upgraded to monit 5 and to also check out m/monit. Nice stuff! 
I'll write up some feature suggestions/comments about m/monit later.

The change to monit 5 beta1 from 4.10 however includes a very annoying 
feature/bug. monit sends me an alert on monitor and unmonitor action, 
performed form m/monit or the commandline on host.

With version 4.10 I could silently run "monit unmonitor apache" and not 
get any alerts. monit 5 however sends me an alert, which pretty much 
beats the purpose of unmonitor. Quite annoying, as the alerts also 
arrive on my phone via sms.

And then I made the mistake of running "monit monitor all", although I 
had only two unmonitored services. So I got an email/sms for each 
service on the host including those already monitored, that's thirty 
something sms messages.

I haven't changed the configuration file while upgrading except for 
adding the m/monit stuff. The change in behaviour was unexpected for me.

Is this a bug or should I somehow reconfigure my hosts to have the old 
behaviour of no alerts on monitor and unmonitor commands?

Regards,

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Aleksander Kamenik
System Administrator
Krediidiinfo AS
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