issuing commands via shell to daemonised instance ?

[Daniel Maher]

Hello,

The monit executable has many helpful commands that can be run from the 
command line (and, better yet, scripted), such as "start", "stop", 
"summary", and so forth.  I'm curious if there is a way to extend it to 
instances of Monit that are running as a daemon ?  The help for monit 
5.1.1 clearly states that the various actions are for non-daemon mode 
only, and (of course) they don't work otherwise :

address@hidden ~]$ sudo monit -V
This is monit version 5.1.1
Copyright (C) 2000-2010 by Tildeslash Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
address@hidden ~]$ sudo grep daemon /etc/monit.conf
set daemon 120
address@hidden ~]$ ps axuw | grep monit | grep -v grep
root     13029  0.0  0.0  58516  2488 ?        Sl   Jul26   1:28 
/usr/bin/monit
address@hidden ~]$ sudo monit status
monit: cannot read status from the monit daemon
address@hidden ~]$ sudo monit monitor ntpd
monit: error receiving data -- Resource temporarily unavailable

I used to get around this by using curl to issue http interactions, such 
as :

/usr/bin/curl -d "action=monitor" http://localhost:2812/ntpd";

This worked great until recently, when i activated http authentication 
to our LDAP back-end (to bring Monit in line with the rest of our 
infrastructure).  I could pass a username and a password in the curl 
command, but i'd rather not leave authentication credentials lying 
around in plain text files.

Does anybody have any ideas how i might be able to script Monit 
interactions given the scenario ?

Thank you.


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