upgrade from monit 5.14 to monit 5.25

[Apurav Gupta]

Hi, We have the following syntax which is working for us in monit 5.14:

check host <host-name> with address <host-address> every 1 cycle
    if failed port 443 protocol https request /red-compass/v1/up status = 200 for 2 cycles then alert

but the same is not working in monit 5.25, we are seeing the following error message:

/etc/monit.d/urls.conf:4: Error: an EVERY statement must have a value greater than 1 '1'
/etc/monit.d/urls.conf:5: Error: syntax error 'https'

Could you please help us with this. We have monit installed on an EC2-instance running Red Hat

[Apurav Gupta]

My apologies, on further invetigation I found out the monit version I was using was 5.2.5 and not 5.25 which might be the cause of this issue.

[Tildeslash]

I'm unable to reproduce the problem ... monit doesn't check the "every" statement value - just the "cycles" count.

Using following test configuration:

set daemon 5

set httpd port 2812 address localhost allow localhost

check system $HOST
        every 1 cycle

check host test with address google.com every 1 cycle
    if failed port 443 protocol https for 2 cycles then alert

Is it official monit release or patched by some 3rd party?

Note that "every 1 cycle" doesn't make sense anyway - if it is omitted, monit will check the service every single cycle => to solve the problem you can drop the "every 1 cycle" statement.

[Tildeslash]

works fine in monit 5.25.x