Just to follow up on this. I started monit with the "-v" flag
(verbose), and this is what I get in the monit.log file:
'MegaRAID' content match skipped - file size nor inode has not changed
since last test
It seems monit is having an issue noticing the file has been updated.
My script overwrites the MegaRAID.log file each time the cron job is
run. From the monit man page:
FILE CONTENT TESTING
--------------------
The content is only being checked every cycle. If content is being
added and removed between two checks they are unnoticed
On startup the read position is set to the end of the file and Monit
continue to scan to the end of file on each cycle. But if the file
size should decrease or inode change the read position is set to the
start of the file.
Unless I read this wrong, the alert should be raised because the
content of the file changed.
Thanks.
-Ron
On 12/12/13, 9:18 AM, Ron Kelley wrote:
Greetings all,
I searched through the archives and could not find an exact match to
my problem.
I have monit v5.6 running on CentOS 6.3, and I am trying to get the
"check file" function working with the reminder option. For some
reason, monit never sends a new alert on the reminder cycle. Here is
what I have:
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set daemon 30
set alert address@hidden
...
...
...
check file MegaRAID with path /var/log/MegaRAID.log
alert address@hidden with reminder on 4 cycles
if match "Degraded" then alert
if match "Failed" then alert
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monit will issue the first alert then will not alert anymore. I have
a cron job that runs every minute to get the RAID card status and put
the result in the /var/log/MegaRAID.log file (thus, the file gets
overwritten every minute). Here is what the MegaRAID.log file looks
like:
---------------------------------
LSI MegaRAID Info - Thu Dec 12 09:06:04 EST 2013
---------------------------------
State : Online
State : Online
State : Online
State : Online
State : Online
State : Online
State : Online
State : Failed
State : Online
State : Online
State : Online
State : Online
State : Partially Degraded
State : Partially Degraded
Since this file is updated every minute, I was expecting to get an
alert every 2 minutes (daemon at 30secs, with reminder on 4 cycles ==
thus, 2 mins).
Can someone please let me know what I need to do to get this working?
Thanks,
-Ron