Monitoring status and every x cycles

[Jeffrey Grace (CITEC)]

Hi,

I've got several checks defined, critical tests are run every cycle, while most 
checks are run every 5 cycles.

Under monit 5.2.5, if you ran "monit summary" you would see the last status of 
the test in between checks.

Under monit 5.4, you can have one of two statuses depending on the timing of 
when you run "monit summary".
If you run the summary on the same cycle as when the tests have run, you see 
"Running/Accessible/etc", if you run the summary on a cycle in between checks 
you see "Waiting".  

Eg:
I have two files included from /etc/monit.d/

Rsyslog.conf:
-------------
check process rsyslog with pidfile /var/run/syslogd.pid
        start program  "/etc/init.d/rsyslog start"
        stop program  "/etc/init.d/rsyslog stop"
        if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
--------

Snmpd.conf:
-----------
check process snmpd with pidfile /var/run/snmpd.pid
  start program  "/etc/init.d/snmpd start"
  stop program  "/etc/init.d/snmpd stop"
  if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
  every 5 cycles
------

If I run monit summary on a cycle that happens to be a 5th cycle, monit summary 
would show:
--------------
# monit summary
The Monit daemon 5.4 uptime: 23m 

Process 'snmpd'                     Running
Process 'rsyslog'                   Running
--------------

If I run monit summary on any other cycle, it will show:
-------------
# monit summary
The Monit daemon 5.4 uptime: 24m 

Process 'snmpd'                     Waiting
Process 'rsyslog'                   Running
-------------

Monit 5.2.5 will always show the 1st example, even between checks.

Is this intended behaviour, or a bug in 5.4?

Jeffrey


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