Re: Couple questions from new/potential user

[Martin Pala]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Jordan Mendler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am new to monit, and am considering implementing it to go along  
> with our cacti instance. I was wondering, is it possible to  
> implement custom rules in monit that would allow me to alert based  
> on custom commands? An example scenario would be to dump the latest  
> information from a cacti/rrdtool Round-Robin Archive, and to alert  
> if it exceeds a certain value.

Yes, see FAQ.txt - question no. 13
> Another question, is it possible to configure monit to send alerts  
> every X times that a service is down? For example, if apache is  
> down send an alert. Then, if it remains broken, do not send another  
> alert unless apache is still down 10 cycles later.

Yes, see monit manual ("reminder" option)

> Lastly, is it possible to have alerts timeout until fixed? For  
> example, if apache is down send an alert. Then, if apache stays  
> broken do not send anymore alerts about it being broken. Finally,  
> when apache is fixed, restart the alerting cycle such that a new  
> alert is sent if it breaks again.

Yes, see monit manual, this is default behavior.

> I hope these questions have not been asked already, I searched a  
> bit and could not find an answer. P.S. Great work with Monit. I  
> really like the simple, yet powerful syntax and web interface.

Please see monit manual - most question should be answered here.

Martin