Bash/ZSH completion

[SzV]

Do you plan to add completion feature?

[Tildeslash]

That would be really cool and useful, but this is an issue for bash completion not for Monit.

[SzV]

I was not so clear. When I type stop name <TAB> a list of services should appear. Bash/ZSH calls a special predefined option. E.g. monit completions --line="$COMP_LINE" --point="$COMP_POINT" and substitutes the whole line for $COMP_LINE and the position in $COMP_POINT Then monit should output a list of running services. For start name <TAB> a list of stopped services.

[Tildeslash]

This is probably better implemented as a module in the bash completion package.

[SzV]

Is there a way outside monit to differentiate running/stopped services?

[Tildeslash]

A bash completion module could use monit summary to get a list of service names and their status and then expand on that list.

[SzV]

Thank you!

[SzV]

This is the one I install on servers:

https://github.com/szepeviktor/debian-server-tools/blob/master/monitoring/monit/bash_completion.d/monit

[Tildeslash]

thanks Victor :) We'll try to improve the completion support - the "monit summary" which we recommended an is used in the referred script as well, requires the monit daemon to be running.

Alternative could be to use 'monit -vIt' which just parses the configuration file and dumps the configuration ... will see if we can find some better way which won't require post-processing the monit output for completion

[Tildeslash]

Fixed: Issue #123: Added a bash completion script for monit command-line. The script is not installed by default, if you want to enable the bash completion for monit, copy system/bash/monit file to /etc/bash_completion.d/ directory or similar (depends on your bash installation).

→ <<cset f6350aedd579>>

[Tildeslash]

created a bash completion script ... it supports all monit commands, detects if sudo is necessary, supports service groups completion for the "-g" option