Re: Handling load of servers during backups

[Martin Pala]

Hello,

there are two ways:

1.) you can suppress the monitoring of the service which generates the system 
load alerts using the cron syntax like this:

--8<--
check system mymachine
    not every "0-1 * * * *"
    if cpu usage > 80% then alert
--8<--

Notes:
- the cron syntax support for the "not every" statement requires monit 5.3 or 
newer
- the above example skips the system check every day from 0:00 to 1:59 for the 
service entry "mymachine" … the other check will be performed normally => you 
can suppress the monitoring on per-service basis


2.) or you can disable/enable the monitoring of that service when the backup 
starts using monit CLI => put the following to the backup script when the 
backup starts:
--8<--
   /usr/bin/monit unmonitor mymachine
--8<--

and this when the backup is finished:
--8<--
   /usr/bin/monit monitor mymachine
--8<--

Notes:
- this solution works with all monit versions


Best regards,
Martin



On Nov 7, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Edke wrote:

> Hello everyone.
> 
> I just configured our network to be monitored by Monit and M/Monit and
> it is an awesome tool to maintain servers. And I'm ready to buy
> M/Monit licence in next few days to keep my M/Monit web app and
> somehow support further development.
> 
> My question is about handling load properly. We do backup our servers
> during their most idle periods (during night). We do backup with use
> of rsync and rsnapshot and of course pg_dump and mysqldump. During
> backup-ing every server is at heavy load, much higher above limits
> that were set to monitor general server conditions.
> 
> I would really love to somehow configure Monit to handle this
> backup-ing without rising limits of system resources and without
> waking up with 60-100 emails about limits reached every morning in
> mailbox :)
> 
> I'm pretty sure, that someone solved this issue in some elegant way in
> Monit. Few things came to my mind, but just don't how to achieve this
> in Monit config:
> 
> - make some sort of time exceptions on those system resource
> Monitoring rules during backup-ing
> - same as above but not exception based on time but rather based on
> running process (backup/rsnapshot etc.)
> 
> Any info pointing me in a right direction is more then welcome, thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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