Conditional services

[Vadym Chepkov]

Hi,

Can somebody give an advice how to implement active/standby configuration using monit.

There are some services which can't run from multiple locations for various reasons. To solve this problem, we have a script, which can be used to check if current location is active or standby via exit code. cron wrapper uses it to determine if cron job should run or not, for instance.

But how does one tell monit to start/monitor  services if server becomes active and stop, make sure they are not running if server is in standby mode.
This should be applied only to 'volatile' services, not all of them.
Thank you.

Cheers,
Vadym