Hi Martin,

Thanks for the input. 
This indeed is listing a total of 7 matches. Any idea how to force a action of 
any of the 7 have a problem?

Any thoughts about option 1? How to fix the ‘recurring action’?


Op 4 nov. 2015, om 22:01 heeft Martin Pala <[email protected]> het 
volgende geschreven:

> Using match based "check process" should be possible, but you need unique 
> pattern - if multiple processes match the pattern, monit will report that the 
> process is running.
> 
> You can test the pattern using:
> 
>       monit procmatch "chrome"
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
>> On 04 Nov 2015, at 10:19, Joost Plas | Pandora Producties.nl 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m looking for the best practice to monitor the health of Google Chrome. 
>> Am I right to understand that Chrome doesn’t have a PID file?
>> 
>> I’ve tried the following 2 techniques:
>> 
>> 1. 
>> check program chrome with path /usr/bin/google-chrome
>> if status!=0 then exec “/usr/bin/pkill chrome”
>> 
>> (I have a script that auto reboots chrome with the correct settings when I 
>> kill chrome).
>> This is sort of working when I simulate a crash (type in chrome://crash in 
>> browser). The problem is that it keeps killing chrome every time monit runs.
>> I think it doesn’t reset the last exit value? When I type ‘monit status’ it 
>> keeps saying ‘last exit value = 1’. How do I fix this? 
>> Also I keep getting errors in M/Monit ‘cannot open display’. I think this is 
>> because monit keeps trying to reopen chrome by itself. I thought I could fix 
>> this by adding ‘mode passive’ but this doesn’t seem to be allowed here 
>> because I get a syntax error.
>> 
>> 2. 
>> check process chrome matching “chrome”
>> 
>> The problem with this version is that nothing happens when I manually crash 
>> chrome. It keeps saying ‘status = Running’.
>> 
>> Hope someone can help me. I’m basically looking for the best technique to 
>> catch all possible issues with chrome. Thanks!
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