Re: Periodic Heartbeat EMails

[Weedy]

On 26 January 2017 at 10:44, Guillaume François
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I suppose the goal is to ensure, monit is able to report issue -> up and
> running and SMTP functionnal.
>
> Let's suppose one of these two "dies" for any reason, an issue raises but
> you get never notified cause you are not aware that the system is down.
>
> Having regular heartbeat from the monitoring system helps to know that it is
> up and running.
>
> Again it just a personal guess but i can understand the need.

If this is all you need cron a "monit monitor <something>", a generic
check of some kind that would never time out. Maybe the default system
one?

## Check general system resources such as load average, cpu and memory
## usage. Each test specifies a resource, conditions and the action to be
## performed should a test fail.
#
#  check system $HOST
#    if loadavg (1min) > 4 then alert
#    if loadavg (5min) > 2 then alert
#    if cpu usage > 95% for 10 cycles then alert
#    if memory usage > 75% then alert
#    if swap usage > 25% then alert