Send status notifications

[Lutz Mader]

Hello Tildeslash,
I try to send status notifications to a central system, this works well
all the time an application stopped by an failure or get some problems.

But all the time I use "monit stop" to stop an application I got no
notification, the script will not called by Monit.

I used the following process definition in my test environment (with
monit 5.25.1 and monit 5.21.0).

check process wait.sh matching "sleep"
  start program = "/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/wait.sh"
  stop program = "/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/wait.sh"
  restart program = "/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/wait.sh"
  if cpu usage > 55% for 10 cycles then stop
  if not exist then restart
  if not exist then exec "/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/zexec.sh"
    else if succeeded then exec
"/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/zexec.sh"

The script "zexec.sh" is the notification script I used to send
information to a central system (the central system send SMS or mail
notifications).

 wait.sh                         │ Does not exist             │ Process
:
[CEST Jun 16 11:05:34] error    : 'wait.sh' process is not running
[CEST Jun 16 11:05:34] info     : 'wait.sh' exec:
'/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/zexec.sh'
[CEST Jun 16 11:05:34] error    : 'wait.sh' process is not running
[CEST Jun 16 11:05:34] info     : 'wait.sh' trying to restart
[CEST Jun 16 11:05:34] info     : 'wait.sh' restart:
'/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/wait.sh'
:
[CEST Jun 16 11:06:36] info     : 'wait.sh' process is running with pid
14501
[CEST Jun 16 11:06:36] info     : 'wait.sh' exec:
'/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/zexec.sh'
[CEST Jun 16 11:06:36] info     : 'wait.sh' process is running with pid
14501
:
 wait.sh                         │ OK                         │ Process

All the time a problem was recovery by Monit the notification script was
called.

 wait.sh                         │ OK                         │ Process
 monit stop wait.sh
 :
[CEST Jun 16 11:06:59] info     : 'wait.sh' stop on user request
[CEST Jun 16 11:07:06] info     : 'wait.sh' stop:
'/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/wait.sh'
[CEST Jun 16 11:07:37] error    : 'wait.sh' failed to stop (exit status
0) -- no output
[CEST Jun 16 11:07:37] info     : 'wait.sh' stop action failed
:
 wait.sh                         │ Not monitored              │ Process
 monit start wait.sh
:
[CEST Jun 16 11:08:32] info     : 'wait.sh' start on user request
[CEST Jun 16 11:08:32] info     : 'wait.sh' start:
'/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/wait.sh'
[CEST Jun 16 11:08:32] info     : 'wait.sh' start action done
:
 wait.sh                         │ OK                         │ Process

But all the time I restart the application via Monit, the notification
script was not called.

I try to use someting like this as well.

if changed pid then exec exec "/Users/lutz/Aufheben/monit/scripts/zexec.sh"

But get a notification on pid changes only, if the pid disappear, no
notifications send.

Any idea how to get a status notification all the time, send by Monit
itself (or via M/Monit).

Thanks for any suggestion,
Lutz