Re: notification of (action) restarts aren't sent

[Jo Rhett]

On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
> The “action” event is triggered for CLI/GUI manual actions only (such as 
> “monit start apache”). If monit detects some error it sends failure 
> notification and the recovery notification when the problem is fixed => two 
> emails are normal.

I believe the manual page is confusing in this matter. The manual in 5.2.5 all 
the way up through 5.14 says the following:

> ACTION
> In each test you must select the action to be executed from this list:
>    (…)
>       • RESTART restarts the service and send an alert. 

You can see it here https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/#ACTION

Would you consider adding an alert type which is a singular alert that a 
service was restarted?



>>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Jo Rhett <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> So I’ve installed monit 5.2.5 from EPEL. I realize this is old, but want 
>>>> to ensure that this isn’t a configuration issue. Can someone point out to 
>>>> me if I did something wrong here?
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve configured it send all alerts to my address, which works. If I leave 
>>>> instance alerts on, I get notified every time monit stops and starts.  
>>>> 
>>>> The restart works properly — the service is restarted, but no e-mail is 
>>>> sent. If I enable “nonexist” alerts, I get an alert that the process 
>>>> doesn’t exist, and then an alert that it has been started. That’s two 
>>>> alerts, and I’d like just one. I want the “action” alert, but one is not 
>>>> being sent. If I disable both instance and nonexist, no e-mail is sent 
>>>> when the service is restarted.
>>>> 
>>>> The documentation says: 
>>>>> In each test you must select the action to be executed from this list:
>>>>>    ·   RESTART restarts the service and sends an alert.
>>>> 
>>>> That underline is in the man page for emphasis. However I’m not receiving 
>>>> the alert that it was restarted.
>>>> 
>>>> Config:
>>>> 
>>>> set alert address@hidden
>>>> only on { action, connection, content, data, exec, fsflags, gid, icmp, 
>>>> invalid, permission, resource, size, timeout, timestamp, uid }
>>>> 
>>>> check process apache
>>>> with pidfile /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid
>>>> group apache
>>>> start "/etc/init.d/httpd start"
>>>> stop "/etc/init.d/httpd stop"
>>>> if failed host localhost port 80 protocol http request "/robots.txt" for 2 
>>>> cycles
>>>> then restart
>>>> if failed host localhost port 80 protocol apache-status waitlimit < 20% 
>>>> for 2 cycles
>>>> then alert
>>>> if 3 restarts within 5 cycles
>>>> then alert
>>>> 
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