Re: [monit] Monit: Testing Alert path

[David N. Blank-Edelman]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Dave Paper wrote:

> However, it's kind of dirty (having an extra job running just for  
> that), and I'm looking at putting together some sort of automation  
> testing/verification that alert messages are able to get through.   
> Using something to externally test the alert system once per day and  
> if no alert arrives, then something in the alert path is broken.

So Martin's response gives an excellent way to make sure alerts are  
being generated (told you I was a neophyte, and I guess I keep on  
finding out more cool things it does). For the full round trip  
question that uses the monit feature Martin mentioned it would be  
relatively easy to write a Perl script to read and parse the mail  
generated by this periodic alert (and to take action if the dog  
doesn't bark on cue). Let me know off list if you'd like more details.

    -- dNb