On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 14:21:36 ushi wrote: > Am 13.02.2014 13:04, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > > Hello all, > > > > Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving notifications > > from systemd for unit state changes? I currently use Monit for the > > monitoring of many processes, and it'll e-mail me when things > > happen (e.g. a process was restarted). Since switching to systemd, > > it's felt a bit silly that for several processes, I'm having Monit > > monitor them simply because systemd is unable to tell me it > > restarted a unit. Monit isn't actually required to keep those > > processes alive as it once was, because systemd can do that. > > > > Paul > > Hey Paul, > > Check out OnFailure= > > [Unit] > Description="HTTP Service" > [email protected] > ... > > The [email protected] is a generic oneshot service that mails you > some stuff. > > [Unit] > Description="Mailer" > > [Service] > Type=oneshot > ExecStart=/path/to/my/mail-script %i > > [Install] > WantedBy=multi-user.target > > And your mail-script is somthing like... > > #!/usr/bin/env sh > > systemctl status "${1}.service" | \ > mail -s "Failed Service: ${1}" [email protected] > > See: > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#OnFailure=
Thanks ushi, that's certainly something. It looks promising for custom unit files, but not so great for catching unexpected unit failures. I'll definitely keep that one in mind, though. Paul
