Re: [monit] Subject: Disabling timing out to "not monitored"

[Martin Pala]

Just make sure that log is enabled ("set logfile ..." statement).

Martin


On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:14 PM, David Bristow wrote:

> Unfortunately this issue occurred a few months back, so we no longer
> have the data.  If it reocccurs we will ask again.  Is there anything
> else that we will need to collect to help you diagnose the problem?
> 
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If no timeout statement is set then monitoring shouldn't be disabled. During 
>> restart the service is temporarily unmonitored, but the monitoring is 
>> enabled again as soon as start method finishes.
>> 
>> Please can you provide monit configuration, logs and more details about when 
>> the problem started (to correlate with logs)?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
>> 
>> On Jan 29, 2010, at 5:08 PM, David Bristow wrote:
>> 
>>> If we're pretty sure that we don't have the "if <x> restarts within
>>> <y> cycles then timeout" setting, and we grepped the logs to make sure
>>> that the service hadn't been stopped, then I am not sure how this
>>> could have happened, do you agree?
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Yes, both options are correct.
>>>> 
>>>> When some user requests stop/unmonitor, it is logged in monit log => you 
>>>> can find when it happened.
>>>> 
>>>> The second option (timeout statement) is not enabled automatically - it 
>>>> requires configuration: "if <x> restarts within <y> cycles then timeout" 
>>>> ... if you have not added it to the service configuration, monit won't 
>>>> timeout the service on restart failure.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Martin
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:09 PM, David Bristow wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> We are using monit to make sure that certain services are running at all 
>>>>> times.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We came across a situation where a service being monitored by monit
>>>>> gave the monit status: "not monitored". From our understanding there
>>>>> are two ways for this to occur:
>>>>> 1) Someone stops the service or "unmonitors" the service
>>>>> 2) monit has difficulty starting a service, or keeping a service
>>>>> running; IE: it tries a number of times and then "gives up" and stops
>>>>> monitoring the service
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can someone please confirm our understanding, and let me know how to
>>>>> disable option #2. (timing out to state of "not monitored")
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you very much for your help.
>>>>> 
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