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Description

Installs Monit.

http://mmonit.com/monit

Requirements

Chef 11.0 or higher required (for Chef environment use).

Platforms

This cookbook is actively tested on the following platforms/versions:

• Ubuntu-12.04
• CentOS-6.3

While not actively tested, this cookbook should also work the following platforms:

• Debian/Mint derivitives
• Amazon/Oracle/Scientific/RHEL

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are dependencies:

• osops-utils

Resources/Providers

procmon

The procmon resource can be used to configure monitoring of a process:

include_recipe "monit::server"

# matching a process name
monit_procmon "apache" do
  process_name "apache2"
  start_cmd "/etc/init.d/apache2 start"
  stop_cmd "/etc/init.d/apache2 stop"
end

# using a pid file
monit_procmon "apache" do
  pid_file "/var/run/httpd.pid"
  start_cmd "/etc/init.d/apache2 start"
  stop_cmd "/etc/init.d/apache2 stop"
end

Recipes

default

Installs the monit package and configures the monit service

server

Installs the monit package and configures the monit service

Attributes

• default["monit"]["poll_interval"] - The monitor polling interval
• default["monit"]["poll_start_delay"] - The delay time before starting polling
• default["monit"]["bind_port"] - The port to bind monit to
• default["monit"]["bind_host"] - The host/ip to find monit to
• default["monit"]["login_user"] - The monit login user
• default["monit"]["login_pass"] - The monit login password
• default["monit"]["allowed_hosts"] - The list of hosts allowed to connect to monit
• default["monit"]["config_dir"] - The monit configuration directory path
• default["monit"]["conf.d_dir"] - The monit config.d directory path
• default["monit"]["service_bin"] - The platform service management binary
• default["monit"]["config_file"] - The monit configuration file path
• default["monit"]["notify_email"] - Enable/Disable email notifications
• default["monit"]["mail_format"]["subject"] - The email notification subject
• default["monit"]["mail_format"]["from"] - The email notifiation from address
• default["monit"]["mail_format"]["message"] - The email notification message template

Templates

• default.monit.erb - Upstart default file for monit service
• monitrc.erb - Monit rc file
• procmon.erb - Process monitoring config file template

License and Author

Author:: Justin Shepherd ([email protected]) Author:: Jason Cannavale ([email protected]) Author:: Ron Pedde ([email protected]) Author:: Joseph Breu ([email protected]) Author:: William Kelly ([email protected]) Author:: Darren Birkett ([email protected]) Author:: Evan Callicoat ([email protected]) Author:: Chris Laco ([email protected])

Copyright 2012, Rackspace US, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.