Re: additional feature for monit-3.0 (for clusters)

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

I spoke with Oliver off list and asked him to send a mail to the list
for discussion, so does anyone have an opinion on this?

Oliver Jehle <address@hidden> writes:

> when using heartbeat and groups in monit, i've missed following feature.
> 
> monit should only monitor manualy started resources . and after stopping
> it, monit should stop monitor it.
> 
> so i've implemented a third input value for the autostart "started". now
> monit monitors a resource only, if you start it with "monit start"... 
> 
> why that... see below.... it's my config for hearbeat with monit
> 
> on every node
> 
> /etc/inittab  starts monit
> /etc/rc3.d/   script execute "monit start heartbeat"
> /etc/init.d/  monit-node1     "monit -g node1 start"
> /etc/init.d/  monit-node2     "monit -g node2 start"
> 
> so hearbeat can control easy the cluster state and if one node fails,
> hearbeat starts monit-xxxx of the failing node and  monit is instructed
> to start the services of the failing-node and monitor them... 
> 
> 
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