> man 5 crontab
"0 19-23 * * *"
On October 15, 2015 9:00:58 PM WEST, Vikram Kone <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi
>I have a check program script that I want to run using monit every hour
>starting at 12pm PST/ 19 UTC.
>The script is pretty basic. It gets the current time , and then execute
>a
>SQL query against a mysql db using the current date to check if a table
>has
>data in it (select count (*) from table where date = $today). If count
>= 0
>it exits with code 0 else with exit code 1.
>
>I have the following config
>
>
>check program check_table
> with path /opt/monit/scripts/check_table.sh
> every "* 19 * * *"
> if status != 0 then alert
>
>What this is currently doing is, starting at 12 PM, it executes the
>script
>every 2 mins (my default polling interval ) till 1pm. If it fails at
>the
>first check it raises an alert, and for the subsequent checks it
>doesn't
>raise an alert. I'm guessing there is some throttling in place that
>prevents monit from alerting for the same issue more than once. But the
>problem is when next day comes and at 12pm it starts the check again
>and it
>fails, I don't get a new alert because there is already an active alert
>for
>this.
>
>How can I solve this problem being able to get at most one alert every
>day
>for this check
>
>
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