Just make sure that log is enabled ("set logfile ..." statement).Martin On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:14 PM, David Bristow wrote: > Unfortunately this issue occurred a few months back, so we no longer > have the data. If it reocccurs we will ask again. Is there anything > else that we will need to collect to help you diagnose the problem? > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Martin Pala <[email protected]> wrote: >> If no timeout statement is set then monitoring shouldn't be disabled. During >> restart the service is temporarily unmonitored, but the monitoring is >> enabled again as soon as start method finishes. >> >> Please can you provide monit configuration, logs and more details about when >> the problem started (to correlate with logs)? >> >> Thanks, >> Martin >> >> On Jan 29, 2010, at 5:08 PM, David Bristow wrote: >> >>> If we're pretty sure that we don't have the "if <x> restarts within >>> <y> cycles then timeout" setting, and we grepped the logs to make sure >>> that the service hadn't been stopped, then I am not sure how this >>> could have happened, do you agree? >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Martin Pala <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Yes, both options are correct. >>>> >>>> When some user requests stop/unmonitor, it is logged in monit log => you >>>> can find when it happened. >>>> >>>> The second option (timeout statement) is not enabled automatically - it >>>> requires configuration: "if <x> restarts within <y> cycles then timeout" >>>> ... if you have not added it to the service configuration, monit won't >>>> timeout the service on restart failure. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Martin >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:09 PM, David Bristow wrote: >>>> >>>>> We are using monit to make sure that certain services are running at all >>>>> times. >>>>> >>>>> We came across a situation where a service being monitored by monit >>>>> gave the monit status: "not monitored". From our understanding there >>>>> are two ways for this to occur: >>>>> 1) Someone stops the service or "unmonitors" the service >>>>> 2) monit has difficulty starting a service, or keeping a service >>>>> running; IE: it tries a number of times and then "gives up" and stops >>>>> monitoring the service >>>>> >>>>> Can someone please confirm our understanding, and let me know how to >>>>> disable option #2. (timing out to state of "not monitored") >>>>> >>>>> Thank you very much for your help. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> David Bristow <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe: >>>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe: >>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> David Bristow <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe: >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >> > > > > -- > David Bristow <[email protected]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
