Problem with using multiple mail-format

[Mancillas, Paul]

I am trying to setup system performance alerts using Monit 5.14. I have created several configuration files in /etc/monit.d like “cpu_alert” and “mem_alert”. Each of these files has a different mail-format section because I want the subject of the alert mail to show which resource is being overloaded. So the cpu_alert file looks like this:

 

set mail-format {

    From: address@hidden

    Subject: [$HOST] CPU $EVENT

    Message: $DESCRIPTION

             $DATE

}

check system $HOST

  if cpu usage > 50% for 1 cycles then alert

 

And the mem_alert file looks like this:

 

set mail-format {

    From: address@hidden

    Subject: [$HOST] Memory $EVENT

    Message: $DESCRIPTION

             $DATE

}

check system dvoellab01corp

  if memory usage > 20% for 1 cycles then alert

 

But when I tested this configuration by putting a high CPU and memory load on the server all of the email alerts say that they are “CPU” alerts. It’s like monit is using only the mail-format definition from the cpu_alert file and ignoring the mail-format from the mem_alert file. Has anyone seen this before? How can I fix this? The reason that I am using multiple configuration files is because I want to be able to use a different subject line and email destination for each type of resource bottleneck.

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