you can filter out the "existence" event in M/Monit (all other events will be delivered):
Regards,
Martin
On 24 Dec 2014, at 15:29, Ben Soot <address@hidden> wrote:Hi
I am using monit 5.4 - cannot upgrade b/c shared c compiler lib of debian wheezy (would have to upgrade c compiler which i rather would not do b/c of side effects)
My issue:
I am checking several error log files and alert if certain patterns occur within (that indicate serious errors i need to take action on).
I however do not want to be alerted when the file does not exist (i.e. there are no errors at all)
How do i do that?
I tried:
check file foo-err.log with path /foo-err.log
if match
"^.*ACTION_REQUIRED.*$" then alert
if does not exist for 64 cycles then exec "/bin/true"
(the last clause is to override the default action which is restart and also alerts me.)
I am customer of mmonit, so i configure alert settings there.
So i configured to be alerted by all events except execution. However I still get alerted when the file does not exist.
Note also: I do not want to create an alert rule in mmonit for every service as i am monitoring a lot of such error log files.
Any ideas?
Many thxs and merry x-mas!
Ben
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