I've recently spent a lot of time overhauling my mon.cf. I moved to m4 macros which I had been meaning to try (I recommend them to anyone who has not tried them for mon.cf).
Anyway, I am trying to implement failure_interval and alertafter, but it does not seem to like it. Basically, I was thinking for a few services that are touchy to have the system regularly test every 30 minutes. But if it has a failure to test every minute. Then issue an alert if it fails 5 times in one minute. I thought it was working fine, until I did not get alerts and I realized that a blank line made mon ignore the period definitions all together. Now it complains that my: cf error: interval & alertafter not sensible. No alerts can be generated with those parameters, line 51. Now, I am guessing that it is looking at my normal interval, not my failure_interval. Would this make sense, to allow the check to consider a failure_interval if it is present? I can see that under most circumstances it does not make sense to pound something harder if it is down, but you never know... What I am doing now is just setting the alertafter to something that is crazy for the interval, but makes sense for the failure_interval _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
