Perfect. I will take a look, and I eagerly await for the next major release fo Monit.
andrew f On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <h...@tildeslash.com>wrote: > On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Andrew Forward wrote: > > > > > I forked the monit project and put up my changes on github.com. > > https://github.com/aforward/monit > > > > I was looking for a feature similar to the one requested below: > > > > "What I would like to do is: whenever I type "alert", send an e-mail > AND run a certain script." > > http://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/Suggestions > > I am not a C/C++ developer so the implementation if very simplistic and > not fault tolerant as shown in the implementation of "exec" when running > things like "if failed... then exec". > > If you replace alert with exec and have a 'set alert' statement in > .monitrc, Monit will do this. That is, execute the script and send an alert. > Though I admit that more flexibility is needed here. We are in the process > of rewriting Monit (it takes time) and one of the things we plan to fix is > to make the alert system a plugin-system. So whenever an event is raised, > Monit will send the event to the alert system which can either send SMTP, a > Jabber message, execute a script or call a user-written plugin to handle the > event. This is what we kind of already do in M/Monit and the plan is to port > this over to Monit. So I don't think we will use your stuff back in Monit, > but it is great that you was able to fix and modify Monit to suit your > needs. > > > > The patches are available at: > > > https://github.com/aforward/monit/commit/cb4e29c7eb2e30dda019ef45b7292efd6f7b200a > > > https://github.com/aforward/monit/commit/9e0b768dee115bf20fbe5965503c0588f0160c95 > > > > > > Here is how the "limited" feature works. > > > > You can set a global exec, just like you can set a global alert > > > > set exec "/usr/local/bin/myscript '$SERVICE: $EVENT'" > > > > Within the script, you can use the same variables as you can with emails > (e.g. $EVENT). With the line above, whenever an alert is executed it will > also check to see if an exec should be executed and will run it. Again, the > implementation is very naive as I simply needed to get something to work. > Feedback on improving it and / or helping to integrate back into the core > would be great, but if not, we will continue to maintain our fork and > integrate changes with SVN on a periodic basis. > > > > > > -- > > aforward > > > > _______________________________________________ > monit-dev mailing list > monit-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-dev > -- aforward
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