Re: [monit] Unable to configure monit

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

if you want to allow connections from anywhere, you need to:

1.) remove the "use address localhost" ... this makes the http interface to 
listen on loopback only (127.0.0.1), by removal it will listen on all interfaces
2.) remove "allow localhost" ... this allows access to the web interface only 
from 127.0.0.1 (not from network)

The httpd statement will look like:

set httpd port 2812
    allow admin:password

Regards,
Martin


On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Sharma, Ashish wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to start monit httpd daemon and intend to use it remotely from 
> any web browser client.
> 
> However when I am using following configuration file, monit web app is 
> accessible from localhost only:
> 
> ## Monit has an embedded web server which can be used to view status of 
> ## services monitored and manage services from a web interface. See the
> ## Monit Wiki if you want to enable SSL for the web server. 
> #
> set httpd port 2812 and
>     use address localhost  # only accept connection from localhost
>     allow localhost        # allow localhost to connect to the server and
>     allow admin:monit      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'
> #     allow @monit           # allow users of group 'monit' to connect (rw)
> #     allow @users readonly  # allow users of group 'users' to connect 
> readonly
> 
> But as soon as I modify the config file for other remote hosts , the monit 
> web app connection is created from remote machine but no display is seen, 
> following is the configuration:
> 
> ## Monit has an embedded web server which can be used to view status of 
> ## services monitored and manage services from a web interface. See the
> ## Monit Wiki if you want to enable SSL for the web server. 
> #
> set httpd port 2812 and
>     use address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  # only accept connection from localhost
>     allow localhost        # allow localhost to connect to the server and
>     allow yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>     allow admin:monit      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'
> #     allow @monit           # allow users of group 'monit' to connect (rw)
> #     allow @users readonly  # allow users of group 'users' to connect 
> readonly
> 
> Please help
> I tried to use the manual examples but they too are failing.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Ashish Sharma
> 
> 
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