Re: behavior when content match status changes?

[Jostein Berntsen]

On 20.07.11,16:20, Yvonne Lam wrote:
> I am running into an issue where monit alerts correctly on a content match,
> but I don't receive an alert when the status of the content match changes.
> I had the impression from the documentation that it was supposed to, but
> perhaps I am misinterpreting something.
> 
> My setup is
> 
> monit 5.2.5
> 
> snippet of monit config:
> check file logfile with path /path/to/logfile
>     if match
>         "FAIL"
>     then alert
> 
> logfile:
> |Wed Jul 20 21:49:47 UTC 2011|PASS|204|Service1|
> |Wed Jul 20 21:49:47 UTC 2011|FAIL|204|Service2 |
> |Wed Jul 20 21:49:47 UTC 2011|PASS|200|Service3|
> |Wed Jul 20 21:49:47 UTC 2011|PASS|200|Service4|
> |Wed Jul 20 21:49:47 UTC 2011|PASS|200|Service5|
> ...
> (new text is appended to the logfile via echo:  echo "string" >> logfile)
> 
> I receive an alert when the string "FAIL" shows up, and I was expecting that
> when the status changed back to "PASS" that I would be alerted again, but
> that is not the case.  Is there a way to fix my config so that I get alerts
> when the status of the content match changes?
> 

I believe you then need to use the reminder option:

http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#setting_an_error_reminder


Jostein