Re: [monit] How to Achieve "if x restarts within y cycles then exec ..."

[Martin Pala]

Art Age Software wrote:
> I would like to be able to execute an arbitrary action after a
> specified number of restart attempts have failed. It appears that the
> only thing allowed in the "if x restarts within y cycles" clause is
> the timeout command. Is that true?

Yes, that's true. We plan to add this feature, there is also patch from 
Alec which implements it. I'll look on it and will try to integrate with 
upcoming monit 5.0.


Martin



> In my case, what I am trying to achieve is a node failover (using
> heartbeat) if mysql has crashed and cannot be restarted after several
> attempts. Something like:
>
>   if 5 restarts within 10 cycles then exec "/usr/lib/heartbeat/hb_standby"
>
> What would be the best way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
>
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