enable monitoring (in daemon mode) for a service without using the web interface ?

[Daniel Maher]

Hello,

I am using Puppet (like cfengine) to distribute, among other things, 
configuration snippets for Monit on a series of servers.  For example, 
if i deploy the HTTPd service to a given server, then along with the 
Apache config and so forth, an appropriate Monit configuration is placed 
into /etc/monit.d/httpd as well.  This works great, except for one thing 
: the service starts as "not monitored" by default in Monit.

Is there a way to activate monitoring of a given service without using 
the web interface ?  For one machine it's not a big deal, but given the 
size of the farm, doing it manually (and it sort of defeats the purpose 
of automated management tools).

The help text for Monit states, rather tantalisingly :
 monitor name   - Only enable monitoring of the named service
However, this is only for non-daemon instances, and my instance is 
already daemonised from the start.

Any ideas on how i could work around / solve this issue ?  Thanks, and 
have a great day !

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Daniel Maher <dma PLUS monit AT witbe DOT net>
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