Re: RES: Monitoring cacti process/PID with Monit

[drich]

Monit is really the wrong tool for that, it's roughly along the lines of trying to drive a nail with a staple gun. You can probably do it, but a hammer would work a lot better.

You would be much better off using something like sec (http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/) to watch your cacti log and make sure you get the "SYSTEM STATS:" message at least once every log cycle. I think sec can do that, I haven't ever tried to make it try to check for a message appearing, only for errors within a message.

There is also a nagios plugin that will watch the cacti log, that might be something to look at as well. http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15239

On 26.04.2012 08:10, Alexandre Carlos Vilarinho de Oliveira wrote:

Yes I'm just trying to make sure that every time Cacti starts up it did as it should and if there is a problem with its initialization monit has to signal it.

 

Atenciosamente

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De: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Em nome de drich
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Assunto: Re: Monitoring cacti process/PID with Monit

Monit isn't designed to monitor something like cacti that doesn't run as a daemon. Cacti instead is a process started by cron that runs periodically (typically ever 5 minutes).

What is it that you are really trying to do? Are you just trying to make sure that every Cacti run has completed successfully?

On 26.04.2012 07:07, Alexandre Carlos Vilarinho de Oliveira wrote:

Hello all,

Recently I´ve started to monitor CACTI with Monit, but because of cacti’s
nature it do run constantly and every time it restart a new PID is used, and
because of it Monit keeps changing the status of the process instead of
keeping it ok. Is it possible to avoid this behavior?

How can I monitor CACTI and avoid Monit to flood e-mails of PID changes?

Regards


Atenciosamente
 

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