RE: Can MONIT be configured to work as a heartbeat monitor?

[Ortiz, Nelson]

Martin,

 

Thanks, this is very useful information.

 

The heartbeat the monitored process provides to the monitor could be anything. I was thinking it should just provide its PID. What would you recommend?

 

Suppose I wanted to monitor 10 processes by having them write their PIDs periodically to a common file (or separate files, one for each monitored process, what do you think?). Each write to the file would trigger a timestamp change, so as you have stated, if periodic timestamps are missing I could alert on that.

 

Thanks for thinking, Martin!

 

Very Respectfully, Nelson J. Ortiz

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Martin Pala
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 4:39 PM
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Subject: Re: Can MONIT be configured to work as a heartbeat monitor?

 

Hello,

 

what kind of heartbeat the process sends? Monit allows to check the files for content and timestamp changes, so if the process writes periodically to the file, you can get alert when it stops.

 

Regards,

Martin

 

 

On Apr 5, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Ortiz, Nelson wrote:

Hello,

 

I know that MONIT is able to monitor CPU utilization and so forth, but if a process sends it a periodic heartbeat signal, is MONIT able to differentiate a heartbeat signal from a process and alert on missing or abnormal heartbeat?

 

Very Respectfully, Nelson J. Ortiz

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