Re: Monit not picking up when usb drive unmounts itself

[Anon]

thank you so much. wouldn't necessarily call them cool. just easy to remember what's on the drive. haha

On 14 August 2015 04:53:57 GMT+10:00, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <address@hidden> wrote:

The solution is kind of hidden in the manual [1] (unfortunately), but the short answer is, monitor the device not the mount-point, because if the disk “unmounts" the mount point will still be there right? 

So you need to figure out which device is behind your (cool) mount-point names, 

So instead of 

check filesystem snake-pliskin with path /mnt/snake-pliskin
     start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/snake-pliskin"
     stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/snake-pliskin”

instead use 

check filesystem snake-pliskin with path /dev/some-usb-device
     start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/snake-pliskin"
     stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/snake-pliskin”


1. https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#THE-MONIT-CONTROL-FILE section 4. CHECK FILESYSTEM <unique name> PATH
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 On 13 Aug 2015, at 06:47, anon <address@hidden> wrote:
 
 Hi Monit mailing list,
 
 I have several external hdd enclosures that sometimes like to unmount themselves for no apparent reason.  I installed Monit to overcome this issue and so it could monitor and remount without me having to do it.  Unfortunately Monit doesn't seem to pick that the drives unmounted.  Here is what I have in the monitrc file.
 
 check filesystem citan-uzuki with path /mnt/citan-uzuki
      start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/citan-uzuki"
      stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/citan-uzuki"
 
 check filesystem hideo-kojima with path /mnt/hideo-kojima
      start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/hideo-kojima"
      stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/hideo-kojima"
 
 check filesystem
snake-pliskin with path /mnt/snake-pliskin
      start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/snake-pliskin"
      stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/snake-pliskin"
 
 check filesystem holder with path /mnt/holder
      start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/holder"
      stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/holder"
 
 check filesystem lucas-hood with path /mnt/lucas-hood
      start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/lucas-hood"
      stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/lucas-hood"
 
 check filesystem mr-robot with path /mnt/mr-robot
      start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/mr-robot"
      stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/mr-robot
 
 Any ideas?
 
 Regards,
 Dean
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