Re: Process fails to restart on newer versions of monit

[Martin Pala]

Please make sure monit logging is enabled (the “set logfile” statement) + run 
Monit in debug mode (-v option), try to reproduce the problem and send logs.

Regards,
Martin


> On 13 May 2015, at 07:15, Shrinath M <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I am using AWS Opsworks and AWS uses an old version of monit (5.3.2) to 
> monitor their agent. Obviously, when their opsworks-agent dies, monit 
> restarts it. 
> Recently, I wanted to monitor few processes of my own and required newer 
> versions of monit to use the explicit "restart" command support. I upgraded 
> monit to 5.13. 
> Now, monit does not restart opsworks agent if it dies!
> 
> I tried looking for changelog of monit to see if something was changed 
> between versions, but could not find them for all versions beyond 5.7. 
> Can someone please take a look at opsworks config below and see what might be 
> breaking? 
> 
> opsworks-config follows - 
> check process opsworks-agent with pidfile 
> "/var/lib/aws/opsworks/pid/opsworks-agent.pid"
>   start program = "/etc/init.d/opsworks-agent start"
>   stop program = "/etc/init.d/opsworks-agent stop"
>   depends on opsworks-agent-master-running
>   depends on opsworks-agent-statistic-daemons-log
>   depends on opsworks-agent-process-command-daemons-log
>   depends on opsworks-agent-keep-alive-daemons-log
>   group opsworks
> 
> check process opsworks-agent-master-running matching "opsworks-agent:\smaster"
>   if not exist for 2 cycles then restart
>   group opsworks
> 
> # check run of statistic daemon
> check file opsworks-agent-statistic-daemons-log with path 
> "/var/log/aws/opsworks/opsworks-agent.statistics.log"
>   if timestamp > 2 minutes for 3 cycles then restart
>   if does not exist for 3 cycles then restart
>   group opsworks
> 
> # check run of process command daemon
> check file opsworks-agent-process-command-daemons-log with path 
> "/var/log/aws/opsworks/opsworks-agent.process_command.log"
>   if timestamp > 2 minutes for 3 cycles then restart
>   if does not exist for 3 cycles then restart
>   group opsworks
> 
> # check run of keep alive deamon
> check file opsworks-agent-keep-alive-daemons-log with path 
> "/var/log/aws/opsworks/opsworks-agent.keep_alive.log"
>   if timestamp > 2 minutes for 3 cycles then restart
>   if does not exist for 3 cycles then restart
>   group opsworks
> 
> - end of file
> 
> Monit logs say restart done, but opsworks doesn't run. If I downgrade to 
> 5.3.2, it does magically run!
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