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

[Martin Pala]

You just mixed the “<action>” placeholder 
(https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/#ACTION) with verbatim “action” event 
type (https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/#Setting-an-event-filter) - these 
two are not related and the manual doesn’t say that if the rule matches 
“action” evet type is triggered. 

If you want to suppress the recovery alert and keep only the failure alert, you 
can use M/Monit to process alerts - it allows to filter out just success or 
failure event types => one mail.



> On 11 Jun 2015, at 09:54, Jo Rhett <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Jo Rhett
>>>>> +1 (415) 999-1798
>>>>> Skype: jorhett
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>>>>> projects.
>>>>> 
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>>>> Skype: jorhett
>>>> Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet 
>>>> projects.
>>>> 
>>> 
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>>> projects.
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