Re: [monit] bugs&deficiencies

[Scott Silva]

on 5-29-2008 1:12 AM deis spake the following:
> I've been playing with monit for a few hours and it seems that I came across a bug in it (tested recent beta and 
> stable versions). If I enter for an action exec "/bin/echo 1 >/some/destination", monit would actually 
> run /bin/echo "1 >/some/destination" causing echo to throw out "1 >/some/destination" to 
> console instead of sending 1 to the destination.
The quotes in your example seem to look wrong. Shouldn't it be more like;
exec /bin/echo "1" >/some/destination
> Another very annoying deficiency of the tool is complete lack of chaining 
> arbitrary conditions, smth like
> if ...
>     if ...
>     then ...
> then...
>
> and lack of logical operators (AND, OR, etc) in the if statements, which does 
> not allow to make decisions based on complex conditions. E.g., I want to test 
> connectivity to two hosts and execute an action only if both of them are down
>
> Regards,
> deis
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