You may be able to add a condition like "if does not exist" that will override the restart if the process isn't running. I'm not sure if you can avoid monit logging every time it sees the process does not exist, though.
For example, if you want monit to double check before issuing a restart you could say: "if does not exist for 2 cycles then restart". It will log that the process was not running in the first cycle and then restart the process if it's not running in the second cycle as well. Hope that helps! Dominic -----Original Message----- From: monit-general [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of windoverwater Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 1:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Steadying monitoring processes without starting them Hi all, Pseudo newbie question - is it possible to start monitoring a process service that has start and stop rules WITHOUT starting the process - specifically, without monit calling the start command? Been trying to achieve this by setting the mode to manual and just issuing a 'monit monitor foo'. But monit seems to always call the start function when monit starts monitoring (when mode=manual). Tried quitting monit, deleting the monit state file, restating monit. But even in that test case issuing a monitor command to the service starts the service. I was hoping that one would have to issue a start command to the service to start the service and that issuing a monitor command would only start monitoring. Does the mode have to be set to passive for this to work this way? If so, does that mean that monit will not automatically restart the process service if it stops? This is on monit 5.14 on centos 6.7. Thanks much for any pointers/clarifications. -sandy -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
