unmonitor until next monit daemon restart; passive only for one check instance

Massimo Sala reporter

I see now the issue #753, I think they are asking a feature similar to my passive proposal.

Massimo Sala reporter

For the 1st question, now I am trying this hack:

#!

check program bar with path "/foo/bar batz"
# no more alerts, until daemon restart
    stop program = "/bin/true"
    if status != 0 then stop

do you think is it a good, working solution ?

Tildeslash repo owner

In what context will monit be restarted? There is an "onreboot" statement that will reset the unmonitor state when the machine reboots, maybe it can solve your issue?: https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#SYSTEM-REBOOT-AND-SERVICE-STARTUP

Tildeslash repo owner

regarding the passive mode ... please can you provide more details? I don't understand the request

Massimo Sala reporter

#!

check ...
    start ...
    stop ...
    passive

All the other checks are performed as usual, obeying the global parameter passive

This specific check is in passive mode: monit only checks (gather the data), without taking actions.

In the CLI and web, we can see the service. If start and stop actions are defined, we can manually do them.

thks for your attention, M

Massimo Sala reporter

In what context will monit be restarted?

Every morning we restart these servers (for other purposes).

At the moment to silence a single check (after first alert), I am trying this

#!

check program bar with path "/foo/bar batz"
# no more alerts, until daemon restart
    stop program = "/bin/true"
    if status != 0 then stop

What do you think ?

Tildeslash repo owner

I think the existing "onreboot" statement should fix the problem.

Massimo Sala reporter

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

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