[CentOS] Service monitoring/"Monit"?

[Toralf Lund]

Geoff Galitz wrote:
>   
>> I have a feeling that introducing nagios monitoring is a little too
>> involved, though. I want to distribute the setup to external systems, so
>> ideally there should be one "monitoring" package install and a simple
>> "enable" command at the most, in addition to installation of the actual
>> software.
>>
>> rpm -Uvh monit-<version>.rpm
>> chkconfig monit on
>>
>> Is really quite ideal, except for the fact that it only nearly gives me
>> what I want :-(
>>     
>
>
> Gotcha.  Would a simple shell script be sufficient?  Something like:
>   
Yeah, I might just end up doing something like this...

I suppose I could also have "cron" control the "iterations" rather than 
doing a loop with wait, but that's just a matter of taste...
> -------------------------------
> while :            ## loop forever
> do
>   /sbin/service [app] status
>   if [$? -ne 0 ];  ## services which should be running, but are dead
>                    ## return a non-zero status code
>   then
>     service [app] restart
>   fi
>   sleep 120        ## sleep for about two minutes
> do
> -------------------------------
>
> Adding mail notifications and other standard functions would be trivial.  To
> monitor various services just create add a for loop in there.
> Just a thought.
>   
Yep. Maybe it can be that simple. I suppose I just wanted to know if 
somebody else had published something that would essentially be this 
script with a few of the trivial extensions you mention, as I don't want 
to re-invent the wheel even if it's a very basic one. But perhaps not...

- Toralf

> -Geoff
>
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> Geoff Galitz
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