Re: Periodic Heartbeat EMails

[Tino Hendricks]

Just out of curiosity, what is the benefit of having mails sent to you 
regardless of the system state?
I always consider it the biggest advantage of a monitoring that it _alerts_ you 
actively in case of emergency.


Am 23. Januar 2017 um 17:59:56, Paul Tiseo 
(address@hidden(mailto:address@hidden)) schrieb:

> So, I set monitrc to the below. Not sure where I am to add the "reminder" 
> clause so that the heartbeat service is the one that emails me without fail 
> (don't want this to apply to other services). Suggestions?
> 
> set daemon 60 with start delay 15
> set logfile /apps/monit.log
> set pidfile /apps/monit.pid
> set idfile /apps/monit.id(http://monit.id)
> set statefile /apps/state
> 
> set mailserver smtp.gmail.com(http://smtp.gmail.com) port 587
> username "address@hidden(mailto:address@hidden)" password "aaa"
> using tlsv12
> 
> set httpd port 2182
> allow aaa:aaa
> signature disable
> 
> set alert address@hidden(mailto:address@hidden)
> 
> #-- HEARTBEAT ---------------------------------------------------------
> check host agp-heartbeat address 127.0.0.1 every 2 cycles
> if failed ping then alert
> else if succeeded then alert
> --
> Thanks.
> 
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