I reasonably familiar with Linux, so not a complete newbie, but thought I'd ask advice here on the best way of getting Monit on my unRAID server.

 

Do to the high uptime of my unRAID server I want to use unRAID to monitor a) it's own services, and b) other servers.

 

Monit is a simple and very reliable system health monitoring application which I have used successfully for sometime, I know how to configure and install it on CentOS (command line, no GUI on my servers) but I'm aware that unRAID is a little different to a standard Linux distro, so any advice and 'gotchas' advice welcomed.

 

Thanks

I reasonably familiar with Linux, so not a complete newbie, but thought I'd ask advice here on the best way of getting Monit on my unRAID server.

 

Do to the high uptime of my unRAID server I want to use unRAID to monitor a) it's own services, and b) other servers.

 

Monit is a simple and very reliable system health monitoring application which I have used successfully for sometime, I know how to configure and install it on CentOS (command line, no GUI on my servers) but I'm aware that unRAID is a little different to a standard Linux distro, so any advice and 'gotchas' advice welcomed.

 

Thanks

At the command line it is pretty similar to other linx distros, other then some un-needed utilities are left off to save space.  (but you can install most any Slackware package)

 

Good luck with installation.  at worst it will need support of shared libraries you don't currently have, but can download and install.

 

Joe L.

I am a Linux newbie, but love the look of this application and would be grateful for any step-by-step instructions you might be able to put together when you get it working

 

Thank you!

from this link

 

http://pkgs.org/slackware-13.0/slacky-i486/monit-5.0-i486-1krs.txz.html

 

it seems there is a package (google is your friend)

 

Requires

 

    * glibc-solibs >= 2.9-i486-3

    * openssl >= 0.9.8k-i486-3_slack13.0 | openssl-solibs >= 0.9.8k-i486-3_slack13.0

 

openssl is a unmenu package

not sure about the glibc-solibs

but there are packages for that too (see link in post)

 

so you could make an unmenu package to install it on Unraid

sacretagent - thanks for that info, a great help.  

 

christuf - once I complete it I'll let you know the steps, might be awhile until I get time to do due to moving house, hence the opportunity to update unMenu/unRAID with Monit...probably several  weeks.

Good idea. Its always nice to see everybody share how they did something.

I should have added, another great thing about Monit is its ability to restarted failed services automatically.

I should have added, another great thing about Monit is its ability to restarted failed services automatically.

 

I'm curious about this.  In my experience, most times restarted a failed service/process just results in another failure.  How has this worked for you in places where you have monit running?

 

 

In an ideal world, all daemons and service would just stay up and running, and on production servers this is usually the case, however, on test and development servers it can be handy to have a tool to auto restart something for you, ssh dies on a remote server (autossh could be used here as well) for example. It does have the logic to stop trying to start a continually failing service so you don't end up in some mad loop.

 

Of course, you don't have to any this, you can just use it to email/alert you when something fails, investigate the issue further, diagnose what caused something to fail in the first place, the best option in reality, but it can be handy to have something restart things for you for the days when you are not in the ideal world!

Along the lines of the discussion above -

 

How would I monitor whether my crashplan and subsonic PIDs are still running and then automatically restart them if they die?  Alternatively (or in addition to the auto-restart), how would I setup email alerts to notify me when such crashes occur?  Would i need to use Monit for this or is there some other more built-in way?  (warning: somewhat linux newbie!)

 

Thanks!!