Re: <service> start Generates email noise

[Martin Pala]

Hello,

this behavior isn't bug - the 'nonexist' event type has possitive and 
negative variants:

  Does not exist (positive 'nonexist')

    vs.

  Exists (negative 'nonexist')

The alert statement allows to filter just the general event type, not 
the particular polarity (there is no 'exist' option).

=> when you have registered the 'nonexist' event, you should get two 
alerts informing about the beggining and end of the problem.

Martin


Aaron Scamehorn wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  From version 4.8 to 4.8.2, the following bug has been introduced:
>
> When we issue a monit <service> start command, we get "Does not exist" 
> and a corresponding "Exists" emails.
>
> Here is the debug output showing this behavior in 4.8.2:
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [11034] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [11034] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' start: /cogcap/ccts/bin/logclnt
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [11034] -- No such process
> Monitoring enabled -- service LogClient
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [11034] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' process is not running
> Does not exist notification is sent to address@hidden
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [11034] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' trying to restart
> Monitoring disabled -- service LogClient (stop)
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [11034] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' process is running with pid 11189
> Exists notification is sent to address@hidden
> 'LogClient' zombie check passed [status_flag=0000]
> 'LogClient' loadavg(5min) check passed [current loadavg(5min)=0.2]
> 'LogClient' cpu usage check passed [current cpu usage=0.0%]
> 'LogClient' mem amount check passed [current mem amount=2776kB]
>
>
> Under version 4.8, we don't get the annoying "Does not exist" and a 
> corresponding "Exists" emails:
>
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [10970] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [10970] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' start: /cogcap/ccts/bin/logclnt
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [10970] -- No such process
> Monitoring enabled -- service LogClient
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [10970] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' Error testing process id [10970] -- No such process
> 'LogClient' zombie check passed [status_flag=0000]
> 'LogClient' loadavg(5min) check passed [current loadavg(5min)=0.1]
> 'LogClient' cpu usage check passed [current cpu usage=0.0%]
> 'LogClient' mem amount check passed [current mem amount=2776kB]
>
>
>
> Additionally, in our config file, we have the following set:
> set alert address@hidden only on { nonexist, exec, connection }
>
> We shouldn't be getting an "Exists" email under any circumstance, should 
> we?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>
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