Re: monitoring vsftpd

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

yes, you can have a general alert rule in M/Monit with exclude list, for example to send alert for every event except for PID and PPID:

Best regards,

Martin

On 08 Jun 2016, at 18:33, Nick Upson <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Tino

that is a change for monit configuration, I'm trying to ignore this is m/monit

Nick Upson,
Principal Operations Engineer, Telensa Ltd.
Direct +44 (0) 1799 533252, Support Hotline +44 (0) 1799 399200

On 8 June 2016 at 17:31, Tino Hendricks <address@hidden> wrote:

Huh?

I thought this was the top answer in the link:

check process blop with pidfile /.../blop.pid
    alert address@hidden but not on { pid }
    start program = "..."
    stop  program = "…"


Take care,

Tino

> Am 08.06.2016 um 18:25 schrieb Nick Upson <address@hidden>:
>
> Can I set a filter in mmonit to send alerts on all except this pid
>
> Nick Upson,
> Principal Operations Engineer, Telensa Ltd.
> Direct +44 (0) 1799 533252, Support Hotline +44 (0) 1799 399200
>
>
> On 8 June 2016 at 14:29, Nick Upson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
>
> thanks, that's one solution
>
> Nick Upson,
> Principal Operations Engineer, Telensa Ltd.
> Direct +44 (0) 1799 533252, Support Hotline +44 (0) 1799 399200
>
>
> On 8 June 2016 at 14:26, Tino Hendricks <address@hidden> wrote:
> Would this help?
> http://serverfault.com/questions/312964/disable-monit-alerts-when-pid-changed
>
> Am 08.06.2016 um 15:17 schrieb Nick Upson <address@hidden>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> We have several systems that monitor vsftpd to make sure its up and ok, but keep getting
>> alerts like this
>>
>> Date Host    Service Action  Description
>> 08 Jun 10:34:36 +0100        britishland-ash.telensa.com     vsftpd  Alert   process PID changed from 28483 to 3826
>> 08 Jun 10:34:36 +0100        britishland-ash.telensa.com     vsftpd  Alert   process PPID changed from 3826 to 1
>>
>>
>> from mmonit (currently trialing). Does anyone have any suggestion how we can avoid this?
>>
>>
>>
>> (BTW: the problem appears to be that the parent spawns a child, which spawns a child, which confuses monit)
>>
>>  4108 ?        Ss     0:20 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
>> 27515 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
>> 27517 ?        S      0:00      \_ /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
>> Nick Upson,
>> Principal Operations Engineer, Telensa Ltd.
>> Direct +44 (0) 1799 533252, Support Hotline +44 (0) 1799 399200
>>
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