Connection Testing with hostname variable

[Tan-Vinh Nguyen]

Hi Guys,

is it possible to use a the output of Linux hostname in the controlfile for connection testing?

address@hidden:/opt/monit> hostname

alpha

Currently I do something like this

CHECK PROCESS kibana WITH MATCHING "/opt/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node\s"
  if failed
      host alpha
      port 5601
      type tcp
      protocol http
  then alert
    alert address@hidden
  group elkstack

The problem is I have kibana run on multiple hosts and binded to the hostname of its respective hosts. I would like to have the same configuration file on each host, instead of changing the hostname on each host. I tried 

CHECK PROCESS kibana WITH MATCHING "/opt/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node\s"
  if failed
      host $HOST
      port 5601
      type tcp
      protocol http
  then alert
    alert address@hidden
  group elkstack

That does not work. I think $HOST only works for SYSTEM. Any ideas how this can be achieved?

Thanks in advance

Vinh