Excellent idea, don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks! -Mark
-----Original Message----- From: monit-general <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ron Kelley Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 11:53 To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Generate a Test Message Quick and dirty way: Setup a cron job to log a message to /var/log/syslog and then setup monit to watch for the message. Example: /etc/monit.d/monit.conf ------------------------ ############################################################################### # Send daily test message ############################################################################### check file messages with path /var/log/message if match "Daily monit alert" then alert crontab file ------------------------ 0 0 * * * /bin/logger "Daily monit alert" ------------------------ Hope this helps! -Ron On 6/10/20 12:48 PM, Faine, Mark R. (MSFC-IS40)[NICS] wrote: > I am looking for a way to generate a message from Monit as a routine test > just to ensure it is working and that we will receive alerts should any be > generated.The problem is that if we have it configured properly and things > are running well it can be a while before we see any messages from Monit. In > this time, it is possible, even if unlikely, that there is a problem with > Monit somewhere that has gone unnoticed and when something does happen we > won't be notified.In order to prevent this, we are looking for a way to make > Monit generate a test notice at least once per day to ensure it is > functioning properly. I have googled for this and seen a few ideas for > forcing a failure and changing the message but I was hoping that there may be > a better way. > > Thanks, > > -Mark >
