Questions tagged [monit]
Monit is a daemon monitoring utility
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Who changes `/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id` in Linux (SLES)?
Well, I thought it's just logical that the kernel changes /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id during boot, and then keeps that value while running.
At least that would make sense to me if the intended use ...
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Send monit alert at most once in Linux?
My script to send sms
#send-sms.sh
curl "http://10.10.10.10:1084/somerandomhexcode&[email protected]&password=passwordgOesHere&countryCode=countrycodegoeshere&...
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How to check if a web server is reachable in Linux?
I want to poll every few minutes if an external web server is reachable from the Linux server.
Assume the server is 10.20.30.40.
I'm following this guide.
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/hosts-network-...
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Check systemd unit with monit
I need to check a program that has a systemd unit under user namespace and this is my monit conf (systemd conf works without any problem):
check program foo with path "/usr/bin/systemctl --user -...
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Install monit in Debian 10 (buster)
I try to install monit in Debian Buster, but it sais
Package monit is not available, but is referred to by another package.
How do I find out this referenced package? Or do I need to install an ...
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Issues when installing Monit
I have recently been trying to install Open Media Vault along with exFAT support (exfat-fuse and exFAT-utils), however, when Monit tries to install it returns with the following error:
sudo apt ...
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Monit ignore pipes for some reason
I have Monit script to monitor my tvheadend service.
To start the program I would like to use start command
start program = "/etc/init.d/tvheadend start
&& /usr/bin/python /root/...
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want to live monitor all log files in one vieuw
I like to view all log files live
like tail -n0 somelog.log
But then for literally all log files on the system (CentOS 7)
Or an other way to do this is also nice.
I want to output this to a web page ...
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monit removed from CentOS8 and EPEL. Any replacement?
I upgraded to CentOS8 and noticed that monit removed from CentOS8 and EPEL. We have been using it to monitor processes.
I know I can build it but wondering why it was removed. Was it replaced with a ...
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How to monitor python script using monit
I want to monitor my python script. I am trying to run the python script from monit but I am getting the error file as :
error: 'scraper' process is not running
info: 'scraper' trying to restart
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monit:3: syntax error '='
I am trying to set up my virtual machine to shut down when my program completes, to stop the charges.
I have written the following .monitrc for this purpose:
SET DAEMON 30
CHECK PROCESS py MATCHING /...
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Monit doesn't run 'start program'
I am trying to add one more process for monitoring through monit:
check process sidekiq_worker_flow with pidfile /home/flio/apps/stage-flow/current/tmp/pids/sidekiq-1.pid
start program = "cd /home/...
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Monit - How to use different configurations for Day and Night time?
What is the most convenient way to configure monit to act different in day and night hours?
The only thing I can figure out , is to use a cron job switch the monitrc file - let's say - at midnight, ...
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monit, http access with four different credentials types, one using PAM
monit 5.25.2
These are our credential settings:
set httpd port 2812
allow localhost
allow guest:guest read-only
allow @wheel
allow cleartext /opt/monit/htpasswd
Rationale:
localhost to enable ...
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How do I configure to 'monit' monitor a process after it restarts?
I have monit configured to terminate a pair of processes when they consume too much CPU, but once either is terminated, monit summary reports "Not monitored" for the process, even after the OS ...
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Monit alert/exec when host is back to normal
I use Monit to quick check uptime of Elasticsearch service.
Here is my configuration:
check host [Elasticsearch]-test with address 1.2.3.4
if failed
port 9200
protocol http
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How can I monitor load average CPU other servers via monit tools?
How can I monitor load average CPU other servers via monit tools?
this example shows the only localhost.
check System my_server
if loadavg (1min) > 4 then alert
if loadavg (5min) > ...
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automatically restart nginx proxy with monit
I tried to mointor my nginx proxy in one VM with this config in
# cat /etc/monit/conf.d/nginx
check process nginx with pidfile /run/nginx.pid
start program = "/usr/sbin/service nginx start" ...
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How to use Monit Environment variables?
According to Monit link :
No environment variables are used by Monit. However, when Monit executes a start/stop/restart program or an exec action, it will set several environment variables which can ...
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How to monitor a service using monit for cpu % metrics.?
I have used monit to monitor various services which were offered by monit itself but I am unable to monitor the custom service which is not generating its PID file.
I want if a particular service is ...
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How to run ps-watcher as non-root
The command is
ps-watcher $HOME/ps-watcher.cfg
Is I run it as normal user, I got this error:
Unable to open file handle FH for file '/var/run/ps-watcher.pid': Permission denied
The content of ps-...
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Monit STUN / TURN server
I set up a STUN & TURN server (with TLS support) using reTurnServer, on a Debian 8 VPS, using the official Debian package resiprocate-turn-server.
I am already using Monit to monitor different ...
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How to restart an app monitored by monit at specific time
I have long-running python app which is monitored by monit, checking if all is well each minute. This is great, however, if the app misbehaves, I want users to be able to kill it, and thus far that ...
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Error upgrading nginx in Stretch
In the last Debian Stretch routing security updates I had a problem. When trying install the security upgrades, and consequently upgrading nginx, I got the following error bellow.
I have tried ...
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What command in monitrc can I use to start/stop systemd services?
I like using monit for the web interface where I can see running monitored processes. I recently upgraded a server to Ubuntu 16.04 and it is using systemd.
I have everything else running but I ...
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Monit during reboot
We are seeing an issue using monit during a reboot or shutdown sequence. First some background of the some of the configuration of monit.
Monit version is 5.5
Monit is started from inittab as null::...
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start: Unknown job: monit
So what is causing this error in the following case?
/etc/init.d/monit exists
installed using sudo apt-get install monit
standard install via apt
vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ sudo apt-get ...
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Trying to understanding startup procedure of monit
I am just starting to learn monit. On its man page I found this:
The behavior of Monit is controlled by command-line options and a run
control file, ~/.monitrc, the syntax of which we describe in ...
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How do non-interactive programs get the permission to edit files in /etc
I'm writing a program in python that needs to edit some files in /etc. Some system some its own. How do I get those permissions from within the program itself without running sudo as the program ...
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How to stop a program that is not showing up using monit?
I have a set of raspberry running raspbian.
On each of these, I have configured monit to monitor the epiphany browser, which should always show up with a specific web site.
Unfortunatly, some times (...
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server monitoring / intrusion detection for home NAS
I'm looking for some kind of monitor or intrusion detection to monitor my NAS.
The following things I would like to monitor:
Incoming network traffic (source -> Router -> NAS) from another
country ->...
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User settings for monit? Should it run as root, or it's own user?
I'm trying to install monit on an Ubuntu 12.04 server. I have it set up, and configured (i think), but i'm not sure what user it's supposed to run as.
My user on the server is called deploy, and my ...
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Why doesn't monit like this syntax
I am trying to setup monit for my debian server. I have a main monitrc file in /etc/monit which at the end has include /etc/monit/conf.d/*.
In conf.d I have two files for my apache and mysql servers:
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Runs monit as non-root user
I'm using Monit to monitor my nodejs process. Right now monit itself runs as the root user which may lead to security holes. How could I run monit via the 'monit' user?
I installed monit by using apt-...
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Displaying messages to tty using whiptail through monit
I would like to display a whiptail message on the login screen that is triggered by monit, but I am without luck.
I understand it might be something to do with interactive/non-interactive shell. Here ...
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Monit daemon interval setting...global or service-level?
I'm configuring monit on Ubuntu 11.04. In monitrc, the following setting controls the interval at which the monit daemon monitors services...
set daemon 120
Is this a global setting? If I want to ...
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Monit won't execute commands
Running Monit 5.2.5 on Fedora 15
All standard alerts are working, however just cannot get exec to run anything.
I have tried more than ten different configurations based on examples from the Monit ...
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