Re: Problem starting my monit

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

the default monit configuration file name is "monitrc", not "monit.conf" (that is used by some 3rd party packages which modify the source code to find the monit.conf instead of monitrc).

The idfile error is repotted most probably because your configuration file contains "set idfile /var/monit/id" statement, but the directory "/var/monit/" most probably doesnt exist => the unique id cannot be saved to the given location. The id is used when Monit is configured with M/Monit to pair the host entry in M/Monit with messages from Monit (pairing by source IP address won't be reliable, as the monit agents can be behind firewall with IP masquerading, so all the agents would update one host entry and you'll sporadically see services of different hosts under the same entry, hence the concept of per-instance ID).

To fix the idfile error:

mkdir /var/monit

+ set the permissions on that directory to allow the user under which monit is running to write to this directory.

Regards,

Martin

On May 13, 2012, at 6:54 AM, sukbir singh wrote:

Dear All,
I have this file monit.conf in my /etc so I set my mail server and set the receiver.

1. I set the mail server
2. set alert ***** 
3. I un-comment the the message format

Quote:

set mail-format {
from: address@hidden
subject: monit alert -- $EVENT $SERVICE
message: $EVENT Service $SERVICE
Date: $DATE
Action: $ACTION
Host: $HOST
Description: $DESCRIPTION

Your faithful employee,
Monit
}

Lastly I added this line to check my java process which is ran as a daemon using yajsw.

Quote:

check process commServer with pidfile /var/run/wrapper.commServer8000.pid # check your app pid
if failed port 8000 protocol HTTP 
then alert

So thereafter I ran this command 

Quote:

/etc/init.d/monit start
Starting monit: monit: Cannot find the control file at ~/.monitrc, /etc/monitrc, /etc/monitrc, /usr/local/etc/monitrc or at ./monitrc
[FAILED]

The I change the monit.conf to monitrc

Quote:

/etc/init.d/monit start
Starting monit: monit: Error opening the idfile '/var/monit/id' -- No such file or directory
Starting monit daemon with http interface at [localhost:2812]
[ OK ]

Then lastly I run this to check if monit running but nothing either too. So where could be my mistake?

Quote:

/etc/init.d/monit start
Starting monit: monit: Error opening the idfile '/var/monit/id' -- No such file or directory
Starting monit daemon with http interface at [localhost:2812]
[ OK ]

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