Re: Another feature

[Andrew Holt]

Hi,

See below ...
On 12 Sep 2010, at 18:15, Martin Pala wrote:

> Yes, the alert action implementation handles the notification so, that the 
> alert is sent only on state changes (success->failure or failure->success). 
> There is a 'reminder' option which allows to repeat the alert if the service 
> remains in error, but by default it sends one alert only.
> 
> If you delegate the alert to script via exec action, it will be executed on 
> every failure cycle (monit tries to recover the service and unless timeout 
> statement is used, it calls the exec action each time). In order to reach the 
> same alert-on-state-change functionality, you'll need to do it in the 
> executed script.
> 

So my script will have to capture the state, save it and on the next run 
compare ?

Would it be simpler to have alert_exec or execon that execs the script only on 
a state change ?

Andrew

> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> On Sep 11, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Andrew Holt wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying this:
>> 
>> check host acs1 with address acs1
>>   if failed icmp type echo count 4 with timeout 15 seconds
>>       then exec "/root/Scripts/alert.sh ping"
>> 
>> If I pull the ethernet connection to ascs1 then sure enough the script runs.
>> 
>> However, I get the message multiple times.  Does 'alert' do something like 
>> set a fail flag against the monitored object, which it later clears when the 
>> fault is rectified ?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11 Sep 2010, at 13:49, Martin Pala wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> you can use exec action instead of alert:
>>> 
>>> check device root with path /
>>>   if space usage > 89% then exec "/root/Scripts/alert.sh" else if succeeded 
>>> then exec "/root/Scripts/alert.sh"
>>> 
>>> Upcoming M/Monit-2.3 also allows to set rules for events which allow to 
>>> execute custom program (in addition to email and instant message). We use 
>>> it to collect events from all monit hosts and pass the event to 
>>> text-to-speach program so we can hear what happened if event arrives (in 
>>> practice it is pretty cool :), it is also possible to execute snmptrap, etc.
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sep 11, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Andrew Holt wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> One other thing I would like to be able to do
>>>> 
>>>> e.g.
>>>> 
>>>> check device root with path /
>>>> if space usage > 89% then alert
>>>> else if succeeded then alert
>>>> 
>>>> And alert sends a mail.  What would be useful is
>>>> 
>>>> set alert_action exec "/root/Scripts/alert.sh"
>>>> 
>>>> Where the default is:
>>>> 
>>>> set alert_action email
>>>> 
>>>> 
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