monitor and unmonitor commands fail at command line but work from MMonit

I am running monit-5.5-1.el5.rf on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5.

I have a group of processes for which I wish to start and stop the monitoring in cron as follows:

10 08 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/monit -g trading_call monitor

30 17 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/monit -g trading_call unmonitor

The problem I’m experiencing is that the commands do not execute. If I run them manually at the command line I get the following results:

address@hidden monit.d]# /usr/bin/monit -g trading_call unmonitor

monit: error receiving data -- Resource temporarily unavailable

monit: error receiving data -- Success

monit: error receiving data -- Resource temporarily unavailable

monit: error receiving data -- Success

monit: error receiving data – Success

If I check the web portals (either Monit or MMonit) there is no change in the monitoring status for the processes.

The same is true if I attempt to monitor or unmonitor an individual process at the command line.

When I use the Monit or MMonit web portals to issue the monitor and unmonitor commands then it works.

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From:	Peter C. Valentien
Subject:	monitor and unmonitor commands fail at command line but work from MMonit and Monit web portals
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:42:45 +0000