Re: Add a service in unmonitored state

[Eric Pailleau]

Le 15/07/2011 15:49, Marco a écrit :
> As the subject says, is it possible? I have a daemon that installs and
> drops some files under /etc/monit.d (to restart the daemon if it
> crashes). However, the program requires some manual configuration
> before being started, and during this time monit should not attempt to
> restart it.

Hello, don't know if it can help, but as far I can remember,
when specifying 'every x cycle' (on recent monit version until ???),
monit don't try to check the service immediately at start, but wait the x cycle 
to do it.

Personnaly I don't move file, only linking those I need :


In /etc/monit/monitrc I have :  include /etc/monit/plugins-enabled/*

In /etc/monit/plugins-available/  all my plugins for monit.

In /etc/monit/plugins-enabled/ are links in ../plugins-available/ to plugins 
that I want to be active.

APART
Only issue (may be it could be fixed in next release ?) 'include' needs at 
least one file, even empty.

So an empty file /etc/monit/plugins-enabled/keepme always exists.

It would be nice, like GNU Make, to have the difference between 'include' 
(Mandatory) and '-include' (Optional)... :>) ...
/APART

Maybe your daemon start script can link either a special one with 'every x 
cycle' (x can be high) in order to let manual config to be done,
and check the daemon a long time after, allowing a warning that config is left 
and daemon still not start (but the cycle is always x cycle in this case).
After configuration, a link to a 'normal' plugin (without x cycle) can be done 
and a monit reload done .

Service in each plugin must have different names, I guess...

Regards