I don't believe "for x cycles" is working either  for 5.1.1 (my current
version) I would appreciate any feedback around the best way to upgrade this
in a Ubuntu box where I installed it from 'apt-get'.
Thanks!
-Nestor

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Nestor Urquiza <[email protected]>wrote:

> I am trying now with "for x cycles". Hopefully that will work. Thanks!
>
> In the case I decide to upgrade are there any directions to install from
> sources upgrading a ubuntu package installation? I am thinking about
> removing the package and then install from sources but just wondering if
> there is a better way.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Martin Pala <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Nestor,
>>
>> the retry option was added in Monit 5.3 … if you're using older version,
>> it won't work.
>>
>> In the Monit 5.3 the retry itself is silent and particular attempt failure
>> doesn't log the error - the error is logged only when all attempts failed
>> (we have extended Monit development version to log the details for every
>> particular attempt in debug mode). It is thus very likely that in your case
>> all 3 consecutive attempts failed since they were too fast (within one
>> cycle) - you can use the cross-cycle failure ratio to wait between retries
>> like this:
>>
>> --8<--
>>     if failed url … for 3 cycles then alert
>> --8<--
>>
>> => the test will fail only when 3 consecutive cycles ended up with error
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2011, at 2:28 AM, Nestor Urquiza wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the rule below:
>>
>> if (failed url https://sample.com and content == 'login') retry 3 then
>> alert
>>
>> The retry part seems not working. I am trying to go around a random issue
>> where I am notified the website is not accessible but a minute later I get
>> it is back. In reality the site is never unaccessible.
>>
>> I have tested this with google, yahoo, cnn and other well known sites. I
>> know for sure there is a problem in our network, perhaps related to a
>> firewall or proxy but I am trying to let us say check the url, wait 2
>> seconds and retry again before sending the alert. Is that possible?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Nestor
>>
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