Add "generic" command to process definition

[Former user]

It would be great if "generic" commands could be defined for a process, and then appear on the UI to be run with a button.

Some processes have more than start, stop, restart as reasonable interventions.

Not exactly monitoring, but closely related.

[Henning Bopp]

Dup of #762 - nevertheless a great idea.

[Lutz Mader]

A nice idea, today it's tricky to use different start/stop commands or an additional siginit to reload the process/application configuration. Lutz

[Massimo Sala]

I open the #773 : add a passive mode for specific checks.

I think it is related to your question.

My idea is simpler : add passive checks; monit has to do nothing, only show the [START] and [STOP] buttons on the web UI (if there are defined start and stop commands).

[Tildeslash]

@saltlake71 I think the generic commands are useful - it can be also used in the alert rule as a custom action, without need to use "exec" action and repeat all arguments for each rule

[Massimo Sala]

I think the local (for check) passive is simpler to-do (pls see my #773).

I agree this generic seems to be more versatile... but also requires more documentation (and testing ?), is a totally new concept.

[Massimo Sala]

Fool me! I read the manual but I don't understand I can use passive in each single check instance.

For our simpler cases, we solved with passive. Thanks.