monit without start/stop

[Kimo Rosenbaum]

Hello,

Our infrastructure servers run named, tacacs, etc for the rest of the nodes in 
the datacenters. The clients connect to anycast'ed IPs rather than the actual 
IPs of the servers. This allows for maintenance/failure of a server without 
affecting clients. We use openbgpd on the servers to announce (or not) the 
anycast IP.

What I've been trying to accomplish is this (psuedo-config):

check process named with pidfile /var/run/named/pid
    if running and success localhost 53 dns udp and
    success localhost 53 dns tcp then
        exec "start anycast IP"
    else
        exec "stop anycast IP"

But I haven't found the optimal configuration. The caveat is that we don't want 
monit to care about starting/stopping the server, it just needs to run the 
anycast scripts. This is so our noc doesn't have to have exceptions in their 
process - its way easier to do "/etc/rc.d/foo stop" and open a ticket so the 
sys 
admins can look when they get in than to have if/else flow charts varying by 
service.

The config that seems to get me the closest is:

check host localhost with address localhost
    if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 53 type udp protocol dns then
        exec "stop anycast IP"
    else if recovered then
        exec "start anycast IP"
    if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 53 type tcp protocol dns then
        exec "stop anycast IP"
    else if recovered then
        exec "start anycast IP"

But I get 5 messages every check interval which is too noisy. It also runs the 
stop/start script twice since the udp and tcp checks happen at the same time 
(not bad, just annoying).

Is there a way to only log on the first failure (resetting on recovery)?

Or is there a better config?

I've also tried this but 'foo' gets started before any of the named tests are 
ran:

check process named with pidfile /var/.../
    start program = "true"
    stop program = "true"
    if failed ...

check file foo with path /some/dummy/file
    start program = "start anycast IP"
    stop program = "stop anycast IP"
    depends on named

Thanks for any help/suggestions.

Thanks
Kimo