Re: [monit] Monitor host only at day

[Martin Pala]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * Martin Pala (Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:36:02 +0200)
> > You can set the monitoring mode to manual (se the service is not
> > automatically monitored) like this:
> >
> >   check process foobar with pidfile /var/run/foobar.pid
> >     start program = "..."
> >     stop program = "..."
> >     mode manual
> >
> > and cron entries:
> >
> > 0 8 * * * /usr/bin/monit monitor foobar
> > 0 19 * * * /usr/bin/monit unmonitor foobar
>
> That sounds nice but unfortunately it does not work:
>
> # monit unmonitor remotehost
> # monit status
> [...]
> Remote Host 'remotehost'
>  status                            online with all services
>  monitoring status                 monitored
>  icmp response time                0.019s [Echo Request]
> [...]
>  data collected                    Wed Sep  9 11:03:06 2009
>
> # monit summary
> The Monit daemon 5.0.3 uptime: 2m
>
> [...]
> Remote Host 'remotehost'            online with all services
> [...]
>
> -- so it does have any effect. Then I tried unmonitoring "remotehost"  
> via the web interface and it worked perfectly


This is strange ... are you sure you typed the service name correctly?  
The monitor/unmonitor commands doesn't return any status value (will  
be fixed in next Monit release), but you can check Monit daemon logs  
(run it with -v option) and/or check network trace (wireshark for  
example).