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@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
## Comments begin with a '#' and extend through the end of the line. Keywords
## are case insensitive. All path's MUST BE FULLY QUALIFIED, starting with '/'.
##
-## Below you will find examples of some frequently used statements. For
-## information about the control file and a complete list of statements and
+## Below you will find examples of some frequently used statements. For
+## information about the control file and a complete list of statements and
## options, please have a look in the Monit manual.
##
##
@@ -17,15 +17,15 @@
## Start Monit in the background (run as a daemon):
#
set daemon 30 # check services at 30 seconds intervals
-# with start delay 240 # optional: delay the first check by 4-minutes (by
+# with start delay 240 # optional: delay the first check by 4-minutes (by
# # default Monit check immediately after Monit start)
#
#
-## Set syslog logging with the 'daemon' facility. If the FACILITY option is
-## omitted, Monit will use 'user' facility by default. If you want to log to
-## a standalone log file instead, specify the full path to the log file
+## Set syslog logging. If you want to log to a standalone log file instead,
+## specify the full path to the log file
#
-set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
+set log syslog
+
#
#
## Set the location of the Monit lock file which stores the process id of the
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
# set pidfile /var/run/monit.pid
#
## Set the location of the Monit id file which stores the unique id for the
-## Monit instance. The id is generated and stored on first Monit start. By
+## Monit instance. The id is generated and stored on first Monit start. By
## default the file is placed in $HOME/.monit.id.
#
# set idfile /var/.monit.id
@@ -47,9 +47,34 @@ set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
#
# set statefile /var/.monit.state
#
-## Set the list of mail servers for alert delivery. Multiple servers may be
-## specified using a comma separator. If the first mail server fails, Monit
-# will use the second mail server in the list and so on. By default Monit uses
+#
+
+## Set limits for various tests. The following example shows the default values:
+##
+# set limits {
+# programOutput: 512 B, # check program's output truncate limit
+# sendExpectBuffer: 256 B, # limit for send/expect protocol test
+# fileContentBuffer: 512 B, # limit for file content test
+# httpContentBuffer: 1 MB, # limit for HTTP content test
+# networkTimeout: 5 seconds # timeout for network I/O
+# programTimeout: 300 seconds # timeout for check program
+# stopTimeout: 30 seconds # timeout for service stop
+# startTimeout: 30 seconds # timeout for service start
+# restartTimeout: 30 seconds # timeout for service restart
+# }
+
+## Set global SSL options (just most common options showed, see manual for
+## full list).
+#
+# set ssl {
+# verify : enable, # verify SSL certificates (disabled by default but STRONGLY RECOMMENDED)
+# selfsigned : allow # allow self signed SSL certificates (reject by default)
+# }
+#
+#
+## Set the list of mail servers for alert delivery. Multiple servers may be
+## specified using a comma separator. If the first mail server fails, Monit
+# will use the second mail server in the list and so on. By default Monit uses
# port 25 - it is possible to override this with the PORT option.
#
# set mailserver mail.bar.baz, # primary mailserver
@@ -57,10 +82,10 @@ set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
# localhost # fallback relay
#
#
-## By default Monit will drop alert events if no mail servers are available.
-## If you want to keep the alerts for later delivery retry, you can use the
-## EVENTQUEUE statement. The base directory where undelivered alerts will be
-## stored is specified by the BASEDIR option. You can limit the queue size
+## By default Monit will drop alert events if no mail servers are available.
+## If you want to keep the alerts for later delivery retry, you can use the
+## EVENTQUEUE statement. The base directory where undelivered alerts will be
+## stored is specified by the BASEDIR option. You can limit the queue size
## by using the SLOTS option (if omitted, the queue is limited by space
## available in the back end filesystem).
#
@@ -69,23 +94,27 @@ set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
# slots 100 # optionally limit the queue size
#
#
-## Send status and events to M/Monit (for more informations about M/Monit
-## see http://mmonit.com/). By default Monit registers credentials with
+## Send status and events to M/Monit (for more information about M/Monit
+## see https://mmonit.com/). By default Monit registers credentials with
## M/Monit so M/Monit can smoothly communicate back to Monit and you don't
## have to register Monit credentials manually in M/Monit. It is possible to
-## disable credential registration using the commented out option below.
+## disable credential registration using the commented out option below.
## Though, if safety is a concern we recommend instead using https when
-## communicating with M/Monit and send credentials encrypted.
+## communicating with M/Monit and send credentials encrypted. The password
+## should be URL encoded if it contains URL-significant characters like
+## ":", "?", "@". Default timeout is 5 seconds, you can customize it by
+## adding the timeout option.
#
# set mmonit http://monit:monit@192.168.1.10:8080/collector
+# # with timeout 30 seconds # Default timeout is 5 seconds
# # and register without credentials # Don't register credentials
#
#
-## Monit by default uses the following format for alerts if the the mail-format
+## Monit by default uses the following format for alerts if the mail-format
## statement is missing::
## --8<--
## set mail-format {
-## from: monit@$HOST
+## from: Monit <monit@$HOST>
## subject: monit alert -- $EVENT $SERVICE
## message: $EVENT Service $SERVICE
## Date: $DATE
@@ -105,8 +134,8 @@ set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
# set mail-format { from: monit@foo.bar }
#
#
-## You can set alert recipients whom will receive alerts if/when a
-## service defined in this file has errors. Alerts may be restricted on
+## You can set alert recipients whom will receive alerts if/when a
+## service defined in this file has errors. Alerts may be restricted on
## events by using a filter as in the second example below.
#
# set alert sysadm@foo.bar # receive all alerts
@@ -117,18 +146,27 @@ set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
# set alert your-name@your.domain not on { instance, action }
#
#
-## Monit has an embedded HTTP interface which can be used to view status of
-## services monitored and manage services from a web interface. The HTTP
+## Monit has an embedded HTTP interface which can be used to view status of
+## services monitored and manage services from a web interface. The HTTP
## interface is also required if you want to issue Monit commands from the
## command line, such as 'monit status' or 'monit restart service' The reason
## for this is that the Monit client uses the HTTP interface to send these
-## commands to a running Monit daemon. See the Monit Wiki if you want to
-## enable SSL for the HTTP interface.
+## commands to a running Monit daemon. See the Monit Wiki if you want to
+## enable SSL for the HTTP interface.
#
set httpd port 2812 and
- use address localhost # only accept connection from localhost
+ use address localhost # only accept connection from localhost (drop if you use M/Monit)
allow localhost # allow localhost to connect to the server and
allow admin:monit # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'
+ #with ssl { # enable SSL/TLS and set path to server certificate
+ # pemfile: /etc/ssl/certs/monit.pem
+ #}
+#
+## Monit can perform act differently regarding services previous state when
+## going back in duty. By default, Monit will 'start' all services. Monit can
+## also takes no action to start services in 'nostart' mode. Monit can try to
+## restore the 'laststate' of the service when Monit was shutdown.
+# set onreboot start # start, nostart, laststart
###############################################################################
## Services
@@ -138,42 +176,40 @@ set httpd port 2812 and
## usage. Each test specifies a resource, conditions and the action to be
## performed should a test fail.
#
-# check system myhost.mydomain.tld
-# if loadavg (1min) > 4 then alert
-# if loadavg (5min) > 2 then alert
+# check system $HOST
+# if loadavg (1min) per core > 2 for 5 cycles then alert
+# if loadavg (5min) per core > 1.5 for 10 cycles then alert
+# if cpu usage > 95% for 10 cycles then alert
# if memory usage > 75% then alert
# if swap usage > 25% then alert
-# if cpu usage (user) > 70% then alert
-# if cpu usage (system) > 30% then alert
-# if cpu usage (wait) > 20% then alert
#
-#
+#
## Check if a file exists, checksum, permissions, uid and gid. In addition
-## to alert recipients in the global section, customized alert can be sent to
-## additional recipients by specifying a local alert handler. The service may
+## to alert recipients in the global section, customized alert can be sent to
+## additional recipients by specifying a local alert handler. The service may
## be grouped using the GROUP option. More than one group can be specified by
## repeating the 'group name' statement.
-#
+#
# check file apache_bin with path /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
-# if failed checksum and
+# if failed checksum and
# expect the sum 8f7f419955cefa0b33a2ba316cba3659 then unmonitor
# if failed permission 755 then unmonitor
-# if failed uid root then unmonitor
-# if failed gid root then unmonitor
+# if failed uid "root" then unmonitor
+# if failed gid "root" then unmonitor
# alert security@foo.bar on {
# checksum, permission, uid, gid, unmonitor
# } with the mail-format { subject: Alarm! }
# group server
#
-#
+#
## Check that a process is running, in this case Apache, and that it respond
## to HTTP and HTTPS requests. Check its resource usage such as cpu and memory,
-## and number of children. If the process is not running, Monit will restart
-## it by default. In case the service is restarted very often and the
+## and number of children. If the process is not running, Monit will restart
+## it by default. In case the service is restarted very often and the
## problem remains, it is possible to disable monitoring using the TIMEOUT
## statement. This service depends on another service (apache_bin) which
## is defined above.
-#
+#
# check process apache with pidfile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid
# start program = "/etc/init.d/httpd start" with timeout 60 seconds
# stop program = "/etc/init.d/httpd stop"
@@ -181,50 +217,52 @@ set httpd port 2812 and
# if cpu > 80% for 5 cycles then restart
# if totalmem > 200.0 MB for 5 cycles then restart
# if children > 250 then restart
-# if loadavg(5min) greater than 10 for 8 cycles then stop
-# if failed host www.tildeslash.com port 80 protocol http
-# and request "/somefile.html"
-# then restart
-# if failed port 443 type tcpssl protocol http
-# with timeout 15 seconds
-# then restart
-# if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
+# if disk read > 500 kb/s for 10 cycles then alert
+# if disk write > 500 kb/s for 10 cycles then alert
+# if failed host www.tildeslash.com port 80 protocol http and request "/somefile.html" then restart
+# if failed port 443 protocol https with timeout 15 seconds then restart
+# if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then unmonitor
# depends on apache_bin
# group server
-#
-#
-## Check filesystem permissions, uid, gid, space and inode usage. Other services,
-## such as databases, may depend on this resource and an automatically graceful
-## stop may be cascaded to them before the filesystem will become full and data
+#
+#
+## Check filesystem permissions, uid, gid, space usage, inode usage and disk I/O.
+## Other services, such as databases, may depend on this resource and an automatically
+## graceful stop may be cascaded to them before the filesystem will become full and data
## lost.
#
# check filesystem datafs with path /dev/sdb1
# start program = "/bin/mount /data"
# stop program = "/bin/umount /data"
# if failed permission 660 then unmonitor
-# if failed uid root then unmonitor
-# if failed gid disk then unmonitor
+# if failed uid "root" then unmonitor
+# if failed gid "disk" then unmonitor
# if space usage > 80% for 5 times within 15 cycles then alert
# if space usage > 99% then stop
# if inode usage > 30000 then alert
# if inode usage > 99% then stop
+# if read rate > 1 MB/s for 5 cycles then alert
+# if read rate > 500 operations/s for 5 cycles then alert
+# if write rate > 1 MB/s for 5 cycles then alert
+# if write rate > 500 operations/s for 5 cycles then alert
+# if service time > 10 milliseconds for 3 times within 5 cycles then alert
# group server
#
#
-## Check a file's timestamp. In this example, we test if a file is older
+## Check a file's timestamp. In this example, we test if a file is older
## than 15 minutes and assume something is wrong if its not updated. Also,
## if the file size exceed a given limit, execute a script
#
# check file database with path /data/mydatabase.db
# if failed permission 700 then alert
-# if failed uid data then alert
-# if failed gid data then alert
+# if failed uid "data" then alert
+# if failed gid "data" then alert
# if timestamp > 15 minutes then alert
# if size > 100 MB then exec "/my/cleanup/script" as uid dba and gid dba
#
#
-## Check directory permission, uid and gid. An event is triggered if the
-## directory does not belong to the user with uid 0 and gid 0. In addition,
+## Check directory permission, uid and gid. An event is triggered if the
+## directory does not belong to the user with uid 0 and gid 0. In addition,
## the permissions have to match the octal description of 755 (see chmod(1)).
#
# check directory bin with path /bin
@@ -233,8 +271,8 @@ set httpd port 2812 and
# if failed gid 0 then unmonitor
#
#
-## Check a remote host availability by issuing a ping test and check the
-## content of a response from a web server. Up to three pings are sent and
+## Check a remote host availability by issuing a ping test and check the
+## content of a response from a web server. Up to three pings are sent and
## connection to a port and an application level network check is performed.
#
# check host myserver with address 192.168.1.1
@@ -253,7 +291,7 @@ set httpd port 2812 and
# if changed link then alert
# if saturation > 90% then alert
# if download > 10 MB/s then alert
-# if total upload > 1 GB in last hour then alert
+# if total uploaded > 1 GB in last hour then alert
#
#
## Check custom program status output.