Re: Repeat alerts for CHECK PROGRAM

Hello

On my side I have to do like this as other method never succeed

check program mycheck with path "/var/lib/monit/scripts/mycheck.sh" not
every "* 0-16 * * *"
if status != 0 for 2 cycles then alert
alert [email protected] with reminder on 15 cycles
alert [email protected] with reminder on 20 cycles
group mygroup
group sample


Best Regards,


Le lun. 3 déc. 2018 à 22:04, Sebastian Arcus <[email protected]> a
écrit :

>
> On 03/12/18 20:55, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am struggling to configure Monit to repeat alerts for the CHECK
> > PROGRAM stanza. I have in my global section:
> >
> > SET ALERT <my_email> WITH REMINDER ON 720 CYCLES
> >
> > then further down:
> >
> > CHECK PROGRAM sa-update WITH PATH "/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/sa-update'"
> >     IF STATUS > 1 FOR 3 CYCLES THEN ALERT
> >
> > This only sends an alert once when the return status changes for
> > 'sa-update' - but doesn't send further reminders. The documentation and
> > online examples seem to suggest that I should keep on getting regular
> > alerts while sa-update returns status higher then 1. But I don't. The
> > daily reminders work fine though for the other types of checks - such as
> > CHECK HOST.
> >
> > I have tried to add "WITH REMINDER ON ..." - but Monit doesn't like that
> > syntax - although there is one example using it in the online docs.
>
> Apologies - the above is incorrect. I meant to say I've tried the
> following syntax from the docs:
>
> CHECK PROGRAM sa-update WITH PATH "/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/sa-update'"
>     IF STATUS > 1 FOR 3 CYCLES THEN ALERT REPEAT EVERY 720 CYCLES
>
> and Monit doesn't accept it - it doesn't seem to like the word REPEAT:
>
>      /etc/monitrc:164: syntax error 'REPEAT'
>
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